Michael R. Burch has over 11,500 publications, including poems that have gone viral. He is a longtime editor, publisher and translator of Jewish Holocaust poetry and poems about the Trail of Tears, Hiroshima, Ukraine, the Nakba, and school shootings. His poems and translations have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into 22 languages, incorporated into three plays and four operas, and set to music, from swamp blues to opera, 74 times by 33 composers. He also edits The HyperTexts (www.thehypertexts.com)
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.