poetryrepairs #242 17,11:131

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HAGIT MENDROWSKI : Stone
HAGIT MENDROWSKI : Eclipse
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HAGIT MENDROWSKI
Stone

My father would quarry in stone, pump water even if there was no Water, to quench his thirst. I looked at his concrete-battered hands, Accustomed to lime and hardship. And when he wanted to touch, I gave myself over And I didn't mind his palms being cracked and rough And their sensation on the skin as if peeling all sensation from me. So long as he would touch. My father didn't touch much. Nor talk much. And when he died, the concrete and stone cracked, And there was naught in my heart but water, its saltiness broke Through the walls.

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HAGIT MENDROWSKI
Eclipse

Tonight there will be a lunar eclipse in me, And I'll know nothing but darkness. A small body will penetrate the large body, Nothing will be formed but silence. Tonight I'll make a lunar eclipse in me. I wish to know nothing but darkness. My tiny body will be cradled in the lap of my giant body. I keep quiet. The voice of the universe speaks.

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Stone, Translated from Hebrew by Oded Peled

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