Poem: “Siblings” & The Story Behind the Words

SIBLINGS A wall-eyed young girl in a party dress with carefully combed dark hair, brushed tears away from a narrow pretty face drawn with misery. Maybe the cause was a word spoken, or a series of them, a mentioned memory, person or place. Maybe it was all of those things for After giving a deliberate […]

Poem: Spring Lament

Another year of days has passed, days now longer and which the sun truly warms, again branches blossom. Looking up into their pale glory I think to ask: has it been so long since last we walked together beneath greening trees and through cool grass still wet with morning dew? My heart knows the answer […]

Poem: January 26th by Red Haircrow

One of eight of my poems published in Sibling Rivalry Press’ Assaracus poetry magazine, Issue 09, (10 Jan 2013).   JANUARY 26th The taste of tears, in a room, on a bed, through my fingers the light rises and falls: silvered blush to shadeless gray, the unspoken suffering bleeds the skin hue and drains away. […]

Poem: Two Girls by Red Haircrow

 I wrote this poem long before I read the search term leading someone to this website, which was, “Red Haircrow’s connection to Nazis?” I have no connection to Nazis. I have, however, been a long time student and researcher regarding pre- and post-WW2 Germany and the Holocaust. The interest developed after getting to know a […]