John Guzlowski
USA

John Guzlowski's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac  and in The Ontario Review, Chattahoochee Review, Nimrod, Margie, Exquisite Corpse and other journals here and in Europe.  His poems about his Polish parents' experiences in Nazi concentration camps appear in his books Lighting and Ashes and Third Winter of War: Buchenwald. Third Winter was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Poems from Third Winter of War: Buchenwald, Finishing Line Press:

 

 
XIX.

 
Working among the bricks, lifting
them in his hands and throwing them
into the wooden cart behind him,
his body first feels hot and then
cold with sickness and the snow.

 
He fears his bones will freeze and crack
the way the limbs of a tree will crack
when winter is so hard it can kill
a dog, and even kill a man.

 

 

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