When they come to take you
midrash Bereishit*
Song or Songs
girl
God
Uncle Josef.
See how the seasons change
how long till I find within myself
now so full of regret
nights when she’s almost full to bursting.
My own grandfather—about Josi
specific materials.
Who are you to live?
In this life words cling to me
like handcuffs.
#
Advice to a contemporary poet.
Yet I don’t think I’ll differentiate
On and on and on
Translated by Aloma Halter
*homiletic interpretation of Genesis
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Prof. Haviva Pedaya is a poet and scholar of Jewish history at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
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