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Milk and Ashes
In the 1948 photo my grandpa
Tzvi feeds me milk from a cup
while walking together in the
Displaced Persons Camp
of Wetzlar, Germany.
When he died in Chicago,
I inherited his ashtray
and our family’s smoke
which blackened heavens.
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