Stutthof

My grandmother was a blinder.*

Even with her glasses

she had to hold the newspaper close to her face

before the candle in the middle of the table.

I wonder if she understood

that the injection seeping into her

at the infirmary in the Camp

was poison or if she thought

she’d be cured and sent back

with her daughters to work

and someday go back to her kitchen

to read the newspaper.

*near-sighted actually