Hagar

Yocheved Bat-Miriam

1941

Hanging her corals on the night she leaves

silent, possessing nothing.

A moon dives, a splash extinguished

in a wall of water.

Alone, just herself, the path

blown clean with white godhead

twists like a scrawled tattoo

trailing away from child and isolation.

—I won’t come back, my country,

like Sphinx at the sun’s door

I’ll stay here to face

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Yocheved Bat-Miriam

1901–1980

Israeli poet Yocheved Bat-Miriam (born Zhelezniak) was born in Keplitz, Belorussia, to a Hasidic Jewish family. She became associated with the pro-Soviet Hebrew Octobrists and changed her name at the age of seventeen. Bat-Miriam studied pedagogy in Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa and began publishing poems in 1922. Leading an unconventional lifestyle, she had two children while unmarried. In 1928, she moved to Palestine where she published five collections of poems between 1937 and 1946; she ceased writing after the death of her son in the War of Independence. Bat-Miriam received the Bialik Prize in 1968 and the Israel Prize in 1972.

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