For economy's sake and also because
She dislikes falling bombs Great Aunt Irina
Has taken a room in the small town
Of Kamianka Strumilowa, about twenty miles
Down the River Bug from Lemberg. The local ghosts
Ask for news but she says none of it is good.
Instead, she plays for them on the memory
Of the violin she burned in 1943, just before she died.
Later, child ghosts find pale notes of music
Glittering against the dark leaves.
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