BERLIN WHISPERS

At the threats
of freeing myself
from towers of idolatry
in the mimic and mime
of a tree of life
cut down to foolish rhyme
by the Nazis and Stasi
at Checkpoint Charlie
you were passing roses, tulips
and love poems
through the insider walls
knowing China
and Jerusalem too have this
like a puzzled Kafka
in a spider's metamorphosis.