Lisel Mueller Child Poems

  • 1.
    In Sleeping Beauty's castle
    the clock strikes one hundred years
    and the girl in the tower returns to the world.
    So do the servants in the kitchen,
    ...
  • 2.
    1992

    1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea.

    ...
  • 3.
    In 1936, a child
    in Hitler's Germany,
    what did I know about the war in Spain?
    Andalusia was a tango
    ...
  • 4.
    Speaking of marvels, I am alive
    together with you, when I might have been
    alive with anyone under the sun,
    when I might have been Abelard's woman
    ...
  • 5.
    If an inaudible whistle
    blown between our lips
    can send him home to us,
    then silence is perhaps
    ...
Total 5 Child Poems by Lisel Mueller

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