HITLER'S YOUTH
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José Hernando Chaves
José Hernando Chaves has recently published or has work forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, Highbeams, The Alsop Review, Recursive Angel and Helicoptero. By José Hernando Chaves
Published on 04/2/2000
The young scholar
in crisp uniform
drops his books
pages flap like
white doves.
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.
Copyright © José Hernando Chaves, 2000. All Rights Reserved.
The young scholar
in crisp uniform
drops his books
pages flap like
white doves.
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.
Copyright © José Hernando Chaves, 2000. All Rights Reserved.