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  • The School Where I Studied
    I passed by the school where I studied as a boy
    and said in my heart: here I learned certain things
    18 lines
  • The School Where I Studied
    I passed by the school where I studied as a boy
    and said in my heart: here I learned certain things
    18 lines
  • Seven Laments For The War-Dead
    Mr. Beringer, whose son
    fell at the Canal that strangers dug
    152 lines
  • The First Rain
    The first rain reminds me
    Of the rising summer dust.
    12 lines
  • The Little Park Planted
    The little park planted in memory of a boy
    who fell in the war begins
    11 lines
  • Temporary Poem Of My Time
    Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,
    Latin writing, from west to east.
    60 lines, 1 comment
  • Tourists
    Visits of condolence is all we get from them.
    They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Let The Memorial Hill Remember
    Let the memorial hill remember instead of me,
    that's what it's here for. Let the par in-memory-of remember,
    11 lines
  • Yad Mordechai
    Yad Mordechai. Those who fell here
    still look out the windows like sick children
    12 lines
  • Pity, We Were A Good Invention
    They amputated
    Your thighs from my waist.
    12 lines
  • What Kind Of A Person
    "What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me.
    I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul,
    31 lines
  • On Rabbi Kook's Street
    On Rabbi Kook's Street
    I walk without this good man--
    24 lines
  • Of Three Or Four In The Room
    Out of three or four in the room
    One is always standing at the window.
    14 lines
  • My Child Wafts Peace
    My child wafts peace.
    When I lean over him,
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Love Of Jerusalem
    There is a street where they sell only red meat
    And there is a street where they sell only clothes and perfumes. And there
    13 lines
  • You Mustn't Show Weakness
    You mustn't show weakness
    and you've got to have a tan.
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • A Jewish Cemetery In Germany
    On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery,
    a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs,
    19 lines
  • An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion
    An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion
    And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy.
    14 lines
  • I Want To Die In My Own Bed
    All night the army came up from Gilgal
    To get to the killing field, and that's all.
    21 lines
  • And We Shall Not Get Excited
    And we shall not get excited. Because a translator
    May not get excited. Calmly, we shall pass on
    18 lines
  • I Don't Know If History Repeats Itself
    I don't Know if history repeats itself
    But I do know that you don't.
    17 lines
  • I Have Become Very Hairy
    I have become very hairy all over my body.
    I'm afraid they'll start hunting me because of my fur.
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • I Know A Man
    I know a man
    who photographed the view he saw
    5 lines
  • Do Not Accept
    Do not accept these rains that come too late.
    Better to linger. Make your pain
    15 lines
  • Once A Great Love
    Once a great love cut my life in two.
    The first part goes on twisting
    12 lines
  • Memorial Day For The War Dead
    Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
    the grief of all your losses to their grief,
    33 lines
  • Half The People In The World
    Half the people in the world love the other half,
    half the people hate the other half.
    30 lines, 2 comments
  • My Father
    The memory of my father is wrapped up in
    white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work.
    6 lines
  • Jerusalem
    On a roof in the Old City
    Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
    15 lines, 3 comments
  • A Precise Woman
    A precise woman with a short haircut brings order
    to my thoughts and my dresser drawers,
    18 lines, 2 comments
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