Poetry:

Dejasu, Yehudah Amichai, Lee

POEMS py y?HUD4H AMICHAI of potMs ey LEE dejasu NOT LIKE THE CI PRESS Mot like the cypress, not AT once, NOT Ail Of me, but LIKE THE GRASS, iNTHoUSAMS 0psL<>WEX/rs, To be HIDDEN LIKE ma a/v...

...AND IN FRONT" OF HIM WICES WANDERING WITHOUT A WAPSAcK, HEARTS WITHOUT SUPPLIES, PRoPtfEOIES WITHOUT WATER, AND LARGE S^NES WW WhJZZmUWfiZO AND REMAIN SEALED, LIKE LETTERS WHICH ffAVENo ADDRESS AMD HO ONE T° RECEIVE THEMYEHUDAH /IMICHAI, ONE OF ISRAEL'S FOiLEHOSf POETS...
...oa/CALL, but with tapping, ON MANy W/nd0w* at SIDE-entrances, with man...
...Of THREE DH four/NA RooM THERE IS ALWAYS ONE wh0staa//)S BESIDE THE Wl/MOR/ His DARK MIB OVER Hi* THO06H7S...
...AND SoMFT/MPS THEY MUST MALI fOUR<5 IN THE 0URNJA/G SAND To REACH THE FIRS?M STATION COVERED WITH BJpoDPUT PERHAPS HE WILL WATCH OlfeR TRUE LOVERS AND HAVE ME/&YM TtfEM AND SHELTER THEM LllCE /I TREE OVEHTVE OLD MM SLEEPlf^/6 ON A PUPLIC 0ENCHPERHAPS WE Too WILL GIVBTtfEM THE LAST RARE COINS OF CHAR|T:/ THAT M o-JTiEP HANDED D°WM To US, SOTHATT>iEIR HAPPIMES5 tfAJ PROTECT US f\i<W AND on other DAYSOP THREE OR FOUR IN A ROOM OF THREE OR FOUR IN A ROOM THERE IS ALWAYS ONE WHO STANDS RESIDE ]HEW/AfDOlV-HE MUST SEE EVIL SPROUTING AMONG THE Trio RN$ AND FIRES ONTHEHILL...
...AND HWMEtf WHO WENT OUTOp]HE/R HOUSES WfMi ARE&IVEN 0ACK i A/THE EVENING LIKE SMALL CffyJA/G...
...TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW BY STEPHEN MITCHELL GOD HAS PITY ON KINDERGARTEN CHUDBEN god MS PITY M KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN-he HAS LESS PITY ON ScHMUHlWRfN...
...not the SHARP RING WHICH WAKES UP the doctor...
...beats Of THE HEART and afterwards the QU/ET5XIT, LIKE smoke without blasts Of the trumpet, a statesman RETIRING, CHILDREN tired From play, a stwe in its last revolutions after the STBB...
...POEMS py y?HUD4H AMICHAI of potMs ey LEE dejasu NOT LIKE THE CI PRESS Mot like the cypress, not AT once, NOT Ail Of me, but LIKE THE GRASS, iNTHoUSAMS 0psL<>WEX/rs, To be HIDDEN LIKE ma a/v CHILDREN at PUy WHILE OWE SfEKSamd not li kethesingle man, like saul, whom MANy menP°UND amd made king...
...but like ]he m/AJ in M4/vy PU^s fROM.many clouds, To &e absorbed, To bed^uajk ay many mouths, to % breathed iai like the air ali-uear-and scattered like blossom/AlG |W s|>r|M6...
...BEHIND HIM, WORps...
...AND ON GROWNUPS [IE HAS Mo PIT) AT ALL, HE LEAVES THEM ALONE...
...dec-l/ne, inthe place WHERE the PLA/aJ of great renunciation pe&ins, from y\/hich, like prayers thatare granted, dust rises in many myriads of GUMS...
...UVBS IN JERUSALEM...

Vol. 2 • April 1977 • No. 6


 
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