From The Pile

"over here is one with a Bach cello piece in her head. over there is one with blueprints for the next Auschwitz."

here’s a map
marking the moments
of monstrous evil

when people
floated down from fire
and through smoke
and rubble
landed—

when women and children
were herded into rooms
airtight, airless,
made to answer
for unreasoning hate,
hate the refrain
of all these places
and times
of monstrous evil

the collapsing
of buildings and of
innocence,
a world
suddenly larger
than we ever wan…