Traveling and Passing

Oded Peled

1993

Traveling and returning. In the

Dirt paths of her forehead

Railroad trains anchor, yellow

Carriages locomotive flowers

In the fields of liberated Europe

Traveling and returning. In the shadows

Between my mother’s eyes ashes

Walk, her eyelids are a necklace

Of mountains that I adorn the neck with

Distant sun-islands, bridges

Over troubled waters…

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Oded Peled

b. 1950

An editor and a translator at the Keshev publishing house, Oded Peled was born in Haifa and has published a number of poetry anthologies as well as translated American literature into Hebrew. In 2007, he received the Prime Minister’s Prize.

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