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In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
Contributor:
Gerald Stern
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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Savta, grandma,
could it be our transparent skin,
skin that doesn’t protect the flesh,
not in the least.
This story of ours
has details that are better left untold,
it’s good to leave blots of…
Contributor:
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1986
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Are you Avraham’s, Yitzhak’s, Yaakov’s?
Are you my mother’s god?
What’s mine of all this?
What did I take by force of hand
and why am I alone
in a city meant to be my city
on account of a mother born…
Contributor:
Natan Zach
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1992