José Hernado CHAVES

HITLER'S YOUTH

The young scholar
in crisp uniform
drops his books

pages flap like
white doves.

Mother's hidden
in the polished
furniture. An eye
peers from a
knot in the table,

to find her son
beside his books
weeping.

The French Revolution
now scattered about
the kitchen floor

in tiny guillotines.

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