The Silent Partner
Three meters wide,
six meters deep,
and fifteen meters long –
these are the measurements of one of the pits
in Poland
to which the Germans drove Jews,
shot them there,
and buried them.
Three meters wide,
six meters deep,
and fifteen meters long –
the three dimensions.
And the fourth dimension,
the one in which all the slaughtered Jews
cannot die
and cannot live
is now the silent partner
to all the days of my life.
Translated by Aaron Kramer
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