We Are Alive. We Are for Everything

How does beginning go how does

remembering without forgetting go

in front of me in the snow a man

his back lonesome somber

how does beginning go not remembering

flashes of light that showed him images when he

was a boy quick and blinding see the shadows

in the light how does not-remembering go

listen to the hissing see the light

and Germany’s lightness

how bright Germany is like soot

like images quick and blinding how does

beginning go smell the snow

it’s new it fell in the night

in the dark gets forgotten

in images quick listen to the snow

it lies light like linen

something’s burning a hissing somber

like images at night on walls listen

to the hissing smell the smell of burning

look at the soot on a white background