Christine Rhein and her sister were born in America and raised in the Detroit area. Christine herself made a home there, developing a career as a mechanical engineer in the automotive industry. Yet one of the formative influences of her life happened decades before and thousands of miles away.
Her father, Horst Misch, was born in Silesia in 1931. Originally part of Poland, the area had passed to the Hapsburg Empire in 1335 and then to Prussia in 1742. People of German heritage had lived there for seven centuries. To the south was the Sudeten Mountains, a region carved out of the Habsburg empire after World War I and incorporated into the new country of Czechoslovakia.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
“In Refusal of Politics,” poem by Joseph Bottum and “Alas, Madam, for Sealing of a Kiss,” poem by Thomas Wyatt–Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Achilles – poem by Jerry Barrett at Gerald the Writer.
Ode to Pumpkin – poem by Megan Willome.
Poetic Responses to Turmoil – Sarah Reardon at Front Porch Republic.
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