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DEATH’S HEAD

At least I was lucky.  I managed

to mourn you, mother.

In spite of the corpses frozen

on the lower bunks of the Gulag trains.

... 

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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