naked lunchable

"The next day,when Paul returned home--this much seems definite, wherever he had been or whatever his dealings with his parents--the house was empty, the front door sealed, and his mother and father gone." --John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (1995)

returning to find them gone
the beginning of a silence
as shiny as a new gun
returning to find them gone
to trace them not again
under the sky's red solace
returning to find them gone

the beginning of a silence

Six Californias.