DUTCH MEMORY

Looking over the grass
a boy on a bicycle
apologizes to himself
when sister
was taken away
on this road
outside Amsterdam
finding a sunflower
coming up from earth
to remind him
of a Van Gogh painting
sister loved
and spoke of
before the war
that night she dreamed
by her windowsill cot
of the wheat and tares
wondering what survives
the hiding cares
in gardens of hyacinth
tulips and daffodils.
over mountains or caves.