The Empty Bowl: Poems of the Holocaust and After

Foreword
Arthur Kleinman
Preface

Poems of Before
This Time
I Too Have a Dream
Because
My Grandfather
Serious Men

Poems of the Holocaust
My Village of Kurima
It Is the Law
The Law of the Land
My Suitcase and I
Morning Mass
Toothbrush
Gestapo Prison
Mirjam's Letter from Hiding
Unhiding in the Forest
Hiding in the Forest
Karpu in Auschwitz
Such Good Taste
Wagon Train
Auschwitz
Lord
SS Man
Knew You Then
Morning Prayer
During Appell
Appell Guard
Magda Speaks kein Deutsch
Come Messiah
Hunger
Hunger, Do Not Intrude
Let Not Flowers Here
The Invitation
An Apple in Ravensbruck
My Ravensbruck Love Song
I Know a Dog
Ravensbruck
Jesus, Tell Your Father
Stand Still, Sun
The Roma Girl
Ravensbruck Friend
Shoes for Life
The Mirror in My Right Shoe
A Brief Reprieve
You Are Invited to My Funeral
Reluctant Witness
Resistance of Prisoner 83,621
Death March
I Say Damn You
Liberation
Trees I Say
Death, Stand Aside at My Liberation Time

Poems of After
Once You Survive
No More Hide-and-Seek
Tell Me This
This Year in Jerusalem
That You Should Know
Legacy Poem
Do Something
Accountability
9/11: Has Anybody Seen My Dad?
My Darfur Mother
Bosnia Boy
To Walk in My Shoes
I Smile, I Smile
Fresh Washed Sheets
Sunrise
Summer Woods
If God Is Dead
Are Things Changed in Heaven
How You Are?
Oversight
If You Apologize
Let Me Win
A Ladder for God
We Should Talk
Survivor's Voice Today
Survivor's Message
Say the Name

Afterword
Ilana Gelb
Acknowledgments
Contributors