The Poverty Line

Ronny Someck

1996

As if you could draw a line and say: below this there’s poverty.

Here’s the bread that turned black in the colorations

Of cheap makeup

And the olives in their little plate

Atop the cloth over the table.

In the air, pigeons took flight on parade

To the peals of the bell in the hands of the man selling kerosene from his red wagon,

And there was the…

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Ronny Someck

b. 1951

A poet, creative-writing teacher, and community activist, Ronny Someck was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel as a young child. His first book of poetry, Golah (Exile), was published in 1976. Someck has collaborated with many artists, including the American jazz musician Elliott Sharp.

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