IT WAS LIKE WINTERGREEN
Lyn Lifshin
a camouflage
over the babies'
graves. Even as
the Americans
marched in, 2000
were killed. While
the Germans were
surrendering, they
put ivy over the
earth where arms
and legs were
still sticking up.
The Americans
made them rebury
the dead. But the
Germans didn't
put flowers of
memorials over
the prisoners of
war. just left
winter green. It
doesn't need light,
it doesn't need
care. You don't have
to think about it
