Poems

I Want To Die In My Own Bed All night the army came up from Gilgal To get to the killing field, and that’s all. In […]

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Then let my right be forgotten. Let my right be forgotten, and my left remember. Let […]

Jerusalem On a roof in the Old City Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight: The white sheet of a woman who is my enemy, The […]

Love Of Jerusalem There is a street where they sell only red meat And there is a street where they sell only clothes and perfumes. And […]

Memorial Day For The War Dead Memorial day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a […]

My Child Wafts Peace My child wafts peace. When I lean over him, It is not just the smell of soap. All the people were children […]

My Father The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work. Just as a magician takes […]

Near The Wall Of A House Near the wall of a house painted to look like stone, I saw visions of God. A sleepless night that […]

Of Three Or Four In The Room Out of three or four in the room One is always standing at the window. Forced to see the […]

On Rabbi Kook’s Street On Rabbi Kook’s Street I walk without this good man– A streiml he wore for prayer A silk top hat he wore […]