NAZI GERMANY, ALL ABOARD by John Grey

The film can only be black and white,
old and grainy.

The people must flicker,
fade, blur, be nothing but
a prayer shawl, a battered suitcase,
a babushka, a cap.

There must be soldiers
pushing them out onto the platform
and a train rolling into the station,
funeral slow.

A dog should snap at the seams
of a long black coat.
And the station master must wave a flag,
mouth, “All aboard!”

These are the only requirements.
The rest is where our journey takes us.

JOHN GREY is an Australian born poet, and a US resident since late seventies.  He currently works as a financial systems analyst.  Grey has recently published in Slant, Briar Cliff Review and Albatross with work upcoming in Poem, Cider Press Review and the Evansville Review.