I have become very hairy all over my body
I'm afraid they'll start hunting me because of my fur
My multicolored shirt has no meaning of love —it looks like an air photo of a railway station
At night my body is open and awake under t...
All night the army came up from
To get to the killing field, and that's all
In the ground, warf and woof, lay the dead
I want to die in My own bed
God-Full-of-Mercy, the prayer for the dead
If God was not full of mercy,
Mercy would have been in the world,
Not just in Him
I don't Know if history repeats
But I do know that you don't
I remember that city was didvided Not only between Jews and Arabs,
But Between me and you,
If I forget thee,
Jerusalem,
Then let my right be forgotten
Let my right be forgotten, and my left remember
Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light in the backyard so it stays lit all the next day But then it is the light that makes you remember
Translated by Chana Bloch
I know a manwho photographed the view he sawfrom the window of the room where he made loveand not the face of the woman he loved there
Translated by Chana Bloch
Do not accept these rains that come too late
Better to linger
Make your
An image of the desert
God has pity on kindergarten children,
He pities school children — less
But adults he pities not at all
He abandons them,
They
Your thighs off my hips
As far as I'm
They are all surgeons
A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert,a drive in the rain
Yes, in the rain
There I met people who grow date palms,there I saw tamarisk trees and risk trees,there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire
And I said to myself:
Half the people in the world love the other half, half the people hate the other half
Must I because of this half and that half go wandering and changing ceaselessly like rain in its cycle, must I sleep among rocks, and grow rugged like the t...