During the Holocaust, Jews entered the Auschwitz concentration camp through the railroad system. Photograph by Gracie Turner.
POEM BY MADISON ANDERSON
The sorrow of a non-Jewish woman touring Auschwitz
here is what I heard:
experimentation and execution
exist
to sooner non-exist
I stargaze final whispers
over concrete chambers
but the cosmos thickened
from the cloud of Jews
or
anan Yehudim
here is what I hold:
I, tasked to write and grit out
a depiction of a muse
that never speaks
and even this poem
cannot bring to life
the words
of those silenced
selah