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William Heyen

Accidental discovery tonight after I picked up Mary Oliver's Why I Rise Early in the Morning I was perusing the "Ls" and found Shoah Train: Poems - Poems of Jewish/Jews/Judaism and the time around the Holocaust - because it didn't spring from nothingness overnight like a mysterious mist. I like finding poets who use this theme with depth and beauty.

It is not his first book on the Holocaust: Erika: Poems of the Holocaust

However, I can't find any poems online. You'll have to go to the library or buy a book.

Posted at April 14, 2004 12:09 AM

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Hi, I was just looking around. Here's a poem. Be well.

Wish

In my dream, my car is an aquarium.
I'm on the hood, prone, looking in,
wondering how I could ever drive again.

It's evening, my interior lit with tropical fish
& desire for a new life. I didn't know
I was this tired. I place my forehead

against windshield, close my eyes, & wish
for you know what. In the beginning, friend,
each word was a dreaming plant or animal

until our traffic changed everything,but something
seems to be happening for the better, now,
if only it's not too late. I fall asleep

against this glass until I wake, a few
guppies & angels convulsing in the drying soul
of the world until our ecstasy, &/or our end.

Posted by: William Heyen at June 5, 2004 05:06 PM

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