Showing posts with label Anya Silver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anya Silver. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Tante Annel's Scrapbook (Anya Silver)

Family guilt. The guilt of history. They are both here - interwoven - in today's poem by Anya Silver.


An older relative's scrapbooking hobby - a German war past. It all comes to a head here and is wrapped in family emotions - of a younger family member ignorant of the past and wanting to know and the older ones refusing to explain.

I like the sense of family - really of any family - of any past tragedy. I wish this were not just one long stanza though - it makes it difficult to read/process what is being said.

Favorite line: "this record that bites and scalds my hands"