When I Grow

by Michael Shindler (February 2020)

 

Woman with Dead Child, Käthe Kollwitz, 1903

 

Her hair will be white, her face fair.

 

Knowing sorrow, but not despair.

 

 

There went a song quite neatly styled.

 

The storm has passed, the sky is mild.

 

Hear this from the mouth of a child.

 

 

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Michael Shindler is a writer living in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in publications including The American Conservative, The American Spectator, National Review Online, New English Review, University Bookman, and Providence. Follow him on Twitter @MichaelShindler.

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