Poetry
Poetry
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Tanya's poetry "Retelling":
"Dreams of Pan"
Tanya's poetry books:
"Tarot Haiku"
"Celestial Animals"
"A Sampler Of Poems"
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The Singel
Out the window of my posh hotel sparkling water, Canal boats moored and moving spring sycamores, Seed pods dangling like ball fringe Brick sidewalks bicycles everywhere I am in Amsterdam. The Singel is the first canal out my window I go walking down brick sidewalks strolling easy Looking close at granite steps thick doors smooth architecture Clean and ornamented at the top. Warehouses and condominiums And a line of people waiting to get in. A dark front, Large windows smoky glass with sashes park bench green. A line of people waiting to get in in the shadow of the church where Queen Beatrix was married in the shadow a long line Waiting to get in and on the sidewalk posters telling us in pictures What is to be seen inside. Especially the hidden door, the big board Made to hide the stairway leading up to where she kept Her diary. Where two families lived I hear the screaming sirens in my mind Under sweet spring sycamores I sit and her words flood into my thoughts. Her confinement her intelligence her terrors and her growing up Hidden by the big board made to cover up the stairs. Just the picture Makes my stomach knot and my throat choke and I turn away Toward the Singel. Crossways I see another street of sycamores. Did she look out at them in spring sequestered peeking out Perhaps as grown ups looked the other way? At night The sirens screamed she wrote and now the sun is sweet and People sit out drinking good Dutch beer and chocolate Screaming In the night and closer and the two families were Carried off and her book remained and Prospered and when I was a girl I sat in the back yard under the Summer trees and read and now I am in Amsterdam choking At the sight of the big board made to hide the stairway leading up To where she kept her diary.~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~ ˇ ~
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