Sophia Anjaparidze
there might have been
no Holocaust at all
no Crystal Night
no shattered pawn-shop ball
and Rachel might have had no chestnut curls
and Rivkah might have been a neighbor girl
to Hans and Gretel in their Gartengasse
for otherwise it would be really ghastly
but once upon a time
they all lived well
and played together
just before the hell
Sophia Anjaparidze is a poet and writer. Her articles and poetry have been published on “Pravoslavie i Mir”, polutona.ru and rifmovnik.ru. She lives in Berlin with her husband and four children.