pi & anne

a search for patterns becomes the pattern childhood¹

no clouds in a cloudy sky playing lights²

one by one
ripples to the moon
and back

gleichschaltung
seeking the shadows
of trees

on my nippy cheek a breath lesser spotted woodpecker

a weakness
in the spider legs
last full moon

BDM

She does not take no for an answer, or a question as a need for truth.

     what was Third Reich like?
     grandma picks
     her yellowed songbook

She says we had such fun together. Good times, too, and sings.

     did you   have you
     other than Reichsautobahn
     a wide field

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Mixed media haiga: ink drawing, photography , golden acrylic, pencil writing.

1. Photograph of an unknown boy during or shortly after WWII. ↩︎
2. Photograph of an unknown baby during or shortly after WWII. ↩︎
3. Photograph of three unknown boys during or shortly after WWII. ↩︎
4. Portrait of a young woman 14.12.1941
   Writing on the back: “Dir, liebe Tante Traudl, herzlichst zugeeignet! Deine Mariele, 14.12.1941” – “Dedicated to you, dear Aunt Traudl! Yours, Mariele, 14.12.1941” ↩︎
5. Photograph of a baby on the lap of its uncle in a military hospital, March 1943. ↩︎
6. Portrait of a young woman, December 1944 (when the Battle of the Bulge started). ↩︎
7. The League of German Girls or the Band of German Maidens (German: Bund Deutscher Mädel, abbreviated as BDM) was the girls’ wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. It was the only legal female youth organization in Nazi Germany.
   
   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_German_Girls ↩︎