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ASH WEDNESDAY IN DRESDEN (Aschermittwoch in Dresden)

Carl Scharwath

Mosquito marker planes dropped
red and green imprints.
The Florence of the Elbe
awaited its charcoal nightmare.

Sirens proclaimed a terror, embraced
by formations of flying steel.
The first incendiary firestorm
rained seismic waves of heat.

Body parts and liquid flesh
christened the sidewalks in drips.
Like a grotesque summer
melting ice cream cone.

Trampled, no oxygen
a death dance in the street.
The dance floor reflected
adults the size of children.

Burnt, screaming and gesticulated
in a mad frenzy to escape.
The cultural city morphed into
an aberrant, surrealistic landscape.

A German mother covered her babies
with tears and a disgraced flag
to whispered silent prayers
on a Dresden Ash Wednesday evening.



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