-after the
landslide in July 1997 that killed eighteen people
They’ve closed the Alpine Way.
The death site looks neat
as the museum at Auschwitz.
Why did I bring you here, Primo Levi?
When the Germans buried you alive
you weren’t handsome and strong
like the young Australian.
And when you walked out of the grave
you were wasted away
like some creeping Jesus.
Forty years later
you hurled yourself down the slope to death.
You’d written your evidence in blood
and now had to join
the only true witnesses.
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