Lotte Kramer
My Three Rivers
Rhine:
Grandfather stories
That river told me,
Ancient and fierce
From his broad chest
Hurried by strong tides
Crushing me against
His verdigris bank.
Thames:
Mystery in that greyness,
An uncertain pulse
Beating by my side.
Softness flushing out
Earlier fears
As willow light shadows
My immature progress.
Nene:
Alien at first
But soon a slow companion
Oozing muddy arms
To hold me captive
In a strange land
Where flat horizons
Are sunset light.
Lotte Kramer was born in Mainz, Germany, and came to England with Kindertransport in 1939. She began to write in 1970 and has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent Selected and New Poems 1980-1997(Rockingham Press) and in Germany Heimweh/Homesick, a bilingual edition of poems (Brandes & Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt a.M.). In 1999 she received a bursary from the Eastern Arts Board. A new collection, The Phantom Lane, is due out next month from Rockingham Press.
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