The Angel of History by Carolyn Forche

Author:Carolyn Forche [Forché, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-202906-5
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1994-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

And the geese, rising and falling in the rain on a surf of black hands

Sheets of rain and geese invisible or gone

Someone was supposed to have come

Waves turning black with the beach weed called dead men’s hands

The sea strikes a bottle against a rock

III

The photographs were found at first by mistake in the drawer. After that I went to

them often

She was standing on her toes in a silk yukata, her arms raised

Wearing a girl’s white socks and near her feet a vase of calla lilies

Otherwise she wore nothing

And in this one, her long hair is gathered into a white towel

Or tied back not to interfere

She had been wounded by so many men, abused by them

From behind in a silk yukata, then like this

One morning they were gone and I searched his belongings for them like a madwoman

In every direction, melted railyards, felled telegraph poles

For two months to find some trace of her

Footsteps on the floor above. More birds

It might have been less painful had it not been for the photographs

And beyond the paper walls, the red maple

Shirt in the wind of what the past meant

The fresh claw of a swastika on Rue Boulard

A man walking until he can no longer be seen

Don’t say I was there. Always say I was never there.

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