A home above the year's seasons <br />home of children animals and apples <br />a square of empty space <br />under an absent star <br /> <br />home was the telescope of childhood <br />the skin of emotion <br />a sister's cheek <br />branch of a tree <br /> <br />the cheek was extinguished by flame <br />the branch crossed out by a shell <br />over the powdery ash of the nest <br />a song of homeless infantry <br /> <br />home is the die of emotion <br />home is the cube of childhood <br /> <br />the wing of a burned sister <br /> <br />leaf of a dead tree<br /><br />Zbigniew Herbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/home-2/
