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For Volodia Shcherbatsevich, Masha Bruskina and Kiril Trous, murdered by the Nazis in Minsk, 26 October 1941

And also for Doug.

And what of the wolves, she’d say, the nine wolves that in the winter’s grey stone dawn would smash their bones against the door, hammering like hungry seals until the door splinters and the baby is got at–even from the cradle even from its precious sleep

And listen…there are men As bad as wolves who no door —no matter how solid the oak– will keep out.

From ‘My Mother’ by John Guzlowski