Born in Tel Aviv, Nira Harel is an author and editor of children’s books. In the 1960s she edited Pilon, a popular magazine for children, and later worked for the publishers Masada and Am Oved. She has earned the Zeev Award, the Fania Bergstein Prize, Germany’s Eselohr Award, and, in 1994, an Andersen Honor Citation.
I left his house
Of my own volition.
In order to build him a house
Of my own volition.
But it seems my father
Remained solitary
And neglected
Not of his own volition.
I was moving towards my…
As you were contained in
Or embodied by
Louise Schlossman
When she was a sophomore
At Walnut Hills
High School
In Cincinnati, Ohio,
I salute you
And thank you
For the fact
That she received
My kisses…
Hey, women, spotted with typhus and riddled with rakes of fingers
Across autumn heads of woe,
Are you fruitful? Do you multiply? How many times each?
In whorehouses? On floors?
In the stable? In…