Poems

The New Moon What have you got in your knapsack fair, White moon, bright moon, pearling the air, Spinning your bobbins and fabrics free, Fleet moon, […]

And, Say, Who Goes There? And, say, who goes there? And, say, who goes there? In such a mighty throng assembled, O declare? Byelorussians! And what […]

From forebears’ ages, long since gone From forebears’ ages, long since gone, A heritage has come to me, Among strange folk, among my own, Me it […]

The Gravemound I Deep in Bielarus, set amid wasteland and marsh, Where a river flows, noisily swirling, A memorial of days fled and vanished long-past Dreams, […]

Young Belarus The free wind has sung free songs to thy name, Green woods caught them with friendly voices, The sun called with its flame to […]

A Dog After Love After you left me I let a dog smell at My chest and my belly. It will fill its nose And set […]

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, […]

A Man In His Life A man doesn’t have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn’t have seasons enough to have a […]

A Precise Woman A precise woman with a short haircut brings order to my thoughts and my dresser drawers, moves feelings around like furniture into a […]

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 […]