A Map of the Lost World by Rick Hilles

Author:Rick Hilles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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A Map of the Lost World

One theme persists (from the Talmud):

To save one life is as if one saved

The entire world. For long afternoons

In Ohio, I and my ninety-year-old friend

Sat knee to knee at his kitchen table

Beneath the ceiling's bright overhead;

Between us, the map of his besieged

City, Warsaw, unfolded, unfolding

Further as he led us down streets

That no longer exist, through sewers

He knew by heart and waded those

First days of the last ghetto uprising,

Two shadows moving under boulevard,

Avenue, ulica (street)—the snowy dust

Now lighting up around him and us

In the refrigerator hum—a small universe

In which the Warsaw Ghetto comes

To life, stirred by his fingertips.

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