trans. Yiddish Ruth Whitman 3 I'll set out for Beer Sheva and go to the Bedouins and ransom a donkey from them, no matter what it costs, Is it my fault that the slave trade still goes on with God's creatures in Beer sheva? I'll prepare an apartment for him, invent a name, tell him…
Here the restless voice consents to love The simple stone, The flagstones that time serves and delivers, The olive tree whose strength has the taste of dry stone. The footstep in its true peace. The restless voice Happy beneath the rocks of silence, And the infinite, indefinite reply Of the herd-bells, shore or death. Your…
Remember that I'm your friend: you can tell me everything. And you can tell me everything, too. I'll remember that, stone. 7/25/1977
trans. Hebrew Ruth Whitman —You're behaving like a child, you are. —I know. Thank you. I am a child; and that other child who blew up our Zelda-tank, how old do you think he was? That wild beast. It's lucky that with only one hand I could still empty a full round at…
There was a sword Struck in the stone's mass. Its handle was rusted, the ancient blade Had reddened the stone's grey flank. And you knew You had to seize all this absence with both hands And pull the dark flame from its sheath of night. Some words were carved in the stone's blood, They told…
If it comes to pass that I have to shout: “Long live Poland!” —what language will I have to do it in? 1975
September 1982 (in connection with non- standard and negligent building in Lebanon) And it so happened that a soldier in the reserves accidentally pulled the latchet of a cannon — and a multi-story building five kilometers away fell heavily on its occupants, eighty-five casualties. Only a few were rescued from the ruins: an old…
There must surely be, at the end of a long street Where I walked as a boy, a pool of oil, Heavy rectangle of death beneath the dark sky. Then poetry Separated her waters from all others, No beauty no color restrained her, Her desire was the iron and the night. She nurses A long…
I am like this dish: you can only accept me, do not try to alter or repair
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