Kristallnacht
(9 November ’38)

how pretty it all sounds
crystal
and night and such
yet
was a horror
too much enthusiastically destroyed

avowed violence
by fractured minds
and
government
encouraging blood-letting

and
who swept up
everything of broken
bone-
sharpened fragments
after

who tried to repair and so
live on
if under a mass of hate like iron cloud
that any moment
crash

with written on it
a night of broken glass and hearts
could
happen again

and by depravity
worse follow

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photo by Harlie Raethel on Unsplash