This poem is taken from PN Review 234, Volume 43 Number 4, March - April 2017.
Three Poems
Translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Rudolf & the author
Concept
It feels good
to think of you
as a concept
beyond my reach.
Your physical presence
is hidden
in a projected image.
From now on, I’ll love you
only in my secret zone,
only in molecules
with their grains of divinity,
in circular
units of light,
in the pain of your absence.
Objects
The objects in my aunt’s house died when she was alive,
...
It feels good
to think of you
as a concept
beyond my reach.
Your physical presence
is hidden
in a projected image.
From now on, I’ll love you
only in my secret zone,
only in molecules
with their grains of divinity,
in circular
units of light,
in the pain of your absence.
Objects
The objects in my aunt’s house died when she was alive,
...
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