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BALLET BELARUS
In the photograph
her right foot has just lifted
off the ground, as she pirouettes
like a ballerina on the edge
of the pit, back turned to the Einsatzgruppen
soldier, I think to give the child
in her arms a last moment of
protection. The bullet has already been
fired in this frozen moment, the shutter
too slow to capture it, but the silence
shatters a new millennium, in Brookline, in my
study, and
startled,
I look up.
May 8, 2001