The German Version: What Margaret Said On Hearing Talk Of Sobibor.

• Author: Baldwin, Barbara Ellen
• Position: Poem

The German Version: What Margaret Said On Hearing Talk of Sobibor (for Carolyn Kizer) we suffered too. no one knew what was happening no person saw camps like those not like those they were far off in forests we could not see people driven past rules kept lace curtains closed with silver pins those others were taken as we slept when it was over all over father had nothing we fought in the alley with old friends over black bread stood in lines waiting waiting Reichmarks worthless Mother...