The Syrian-African Rift: Six Poems
Avot Yeshurun
1973
The Poem on the Eve of This Day
The sages say, that at the time the Syrian-African Rift
occurred, the celestial inhabitants were not
up-to-date. Each man was engaged
at his trade. In grinding hatchets. In splitting beasts.
Ancient humanity and land of the axe.
And when those wanted some change on the earth
they have to do it by putting to sleep…
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