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She….

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27 January 2025 /Posted byKevin Patrick McCann
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Prisoners at Dachau concentration camp, CC PDM 1.0

She…

Took photographs (guard towers)

Made notes (barbed wire)

But finally (gallows site)

Just stood (medical block)

Fading

Into row upon row of nissen huts

And rising up in front of her

This butterfly, a tongue of fire,

Wings beating back silence,

Rhythmic as a final prayer

Rises up over a web

In a gap in the wire.

Tags: Dachau, Holocaust Memorial Day
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Kevin Patrick McCann

Kevin Patrick McCann has published eight collections of poems for adults, one for children (Diary of a Shapeshifter, Beul Aithris), a book of ghost stories (It’s Gone Dark, The Otherside Books), Teach Yourself Self-Publishing (Hodder) co-written with the playwright Tom Green, and Ov (Beul Aithris Publications) a fantasy novel for children. His recent book The Haunting (Deleted Scenes), published by Culture Matters, is available in the Books section.

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