Old Age I who was a ram in Jerusalem A young man of lean muscles in Jerusalem Skipping and lusting on the stairs of Jerusalem, Now calculate every step every stride Up toward the love-dens that have forsaken me. I slide clumsy on the slope Rolling down with Jerusalem stones, Clutching like a desparate survivor the memory of my youth: A forgotten lesson from the classroom About a cruel and precise law Of the sloping plane. ------------------------------------------------------------ Elisha Porat [Translated from Hebrew by Aura Hammer] |
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