remembering Anne Frank
From the collection of poems by Nick Naydler, with paintings by Greg Tricker, entitled For Anne Frank, published by Loxwood Stoneleigh in Bristol in 1991.
‘I hope I shall be able to confide in you’
Into you shall I plunge
I the menagerie of girlhood;
unfurl the chorus of my life —
these secrets let me hurl
upon your white hearing;
I who am schoolgirl and quarry
clown and child, mirror and need.
‘Like a songbird in its cage’
Here do I take this pen
in this my cave of light,
this cage of heaven and hell,
in here unreel my life.I know
what is inside this jail;
this chapel my song is dawnlight;
I must sing.
Poems copywright Nick Naydler