1944
Rent from DeepDyve- 1944
My grandmother madeholes in hand grenadesto leave Bergen-Belseneach dark night shift—burnt-out bulbs beneaththe canopy of forest,bare-shouldered treeslike the thinnest trip wires,the name of the unnamedover and over, hollowbones scraping the spacenothing could reach.What would you placein her outstretched hands?
Erika Meitner
Erika Meitner is the author of Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore (Anhinga) and is currently the Morgenstern Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia.
