BEACH AT RAPALLO

What colors
are unforgiving

in deportation

inquisition,

degradation

every decision

of your dedication

to the living

and the dead

Felix Nussbaum
(1904-1944)
for your arrival

in the beach
at Rapallo
to be carefree here
and smile
at your painting
yet expecting
in a vision

what leads to death

without survival

before liberation

a fixed hope for revival

yet in your creation

there is a breath life
by the sea and sand
of every exile

take it.