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Jessica Goody263 PRINSENGRACHTListen to the audio version.In Memory of Anne Frank A bookcase blocks the doors, shelves An old trunk bearing the scabs of peeling stickers Old cardigans, the moth-eaten open weave of crochet is The scratching of your dwindling pencil Shadows flicker on the dark beams and rafters every reflection into quadrants: sunset, starlight, You no longer bear witness to daylight. your narrow existence with only your imagination where your ears strain for the sounds of jackboots and air raid sirens,
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