Tell Me, Branches
1945
Tell me, branches,
speak trees
and clear streams,
tell me, before he died
did the partisan who fell
wounded in the battle
speak his mother’s name
a mother who waits, wasting away
who endures, suffering?
Five Sailors, 1945
Tell Me, Branches
Tell me, branches,
speak trees
and clear streams,
tell me, before he died
did the partisan who fell
wounded in the battle
speak his mother’s name
a mother who waits, wasting away
who endures, suffering?
Five Sailors, 1945
