Germany Is...

trustworthy

Morgens

Shutterblinds and guten Tags

Omas peddling

bicycle Baskets

through

farmers' Fields to

market Squares

loyal

tiled Rooftops, flower Boxes

black

red

and

yellow
waving

balcony's Pride

teenage Drinking

sharp Remains

scattered at bus benched
Train Stops

churchbelled Cobblestones

hosting

Cigarettes and

bakery-window
Gazing

Chocolate.

Yogurt.

Bretzels...

Cheese, bitte,

vielen Dank

the French,

the Czechs
the Polish
Greeks,

Italian Iced

Russians
eating

Turkish Doners

Milk in Boxes

Apfelmus, too

Sausage and Doorknobs
hidden Courtyards

iron Gates locked

barbed wire Fences standing

still.

flower Gardens

garden Gnomes

beer Gardens

belly Laughing

kinder Gartens

running Bikes

rainbow graffitied

tattoos,
lip-ringed
Mothers pushing
Kinderwagons

round fountained Statues'

kingly Castles

pink-haired Nodding

ice cream Licking
in sunny Rain

platz Places

newspaper Reading

walking Dogs,

yellow Post Carts and

Playmobil People

past

our new Home