The Butterfly Effect of the Leningrad Symphony

by Frank Thomas Rosen

I break

Sideways

Hammered

By the blue light

Sleeping bags

Under my eyes

Way below zero

A cassette-tape

Rattles my

Beetle:

The Symphony #7

From the shores

Of Lake Ladoga

A frozen dove

Dropped

On Berlin

I flag down

A single note

Just take it

Without a peep

The misshapen

Allegretto

The diesel – deep

In my cabin.

Frank Thomas Rosen is a writer and nurse practitioner (NP) based in Lakewood, OH, USA. He grew up in East Germany and moved to the US in 1997. He has published two collections of poetry: scratches, Satzverlag (Dresden, Germany, 2003), and auschwitz of the digital age and other poems (new cognitive poetry), Cherry Castle Publishing (Columbia, MD, USA, 2019). Rosen's poetry has appeared in Ambit, Dongola Publishing, The American Journal of Poetry, Belt Magazine, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Briefly Write Zine, and international anthologies (USA, Germany).