Poetry

In those days Harvey Kaplan judged all Israel. He also judged most corned beef sandwiches                               to be inadequate and politicians          to be…
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February 11, 1946 I looked for you in the stars When as a child I questioned them. I asked the mountains for you But all they gave me were a few moments of solitude and…
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Sekschon 1: Inklantd (1938-1980) London [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yzv2ed8R7Y] Not zo mainy Dais zinz ve arrivink. Zis grey iss like Bearlin, zis same grey Day…
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Menorah v Christmas tree. Doughnuts v Christmas pudding. Dreidels v Christmas crackers. Macabees v ELF's. Candle lights v Christmas lights. 1 silent night v 8 crazy nights.…
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The poet, author, doctor and playwright Dannie Abse, who died in September 2014, was a long-standing contributor to Jewish Quarterly. We will miss him and his words. Here is the…
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Array
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More precisely than I Remember the story he told Of a garden that grew By the fortress, he pictured The little gentile hunchback girl. A general’s daughter? Something like…
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I love to strum the run of tuneless anti-notes these braided harps have strung from post to post to post, dividing fenced-in dogs from lucky ones on walks…
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For Charles Patterson Translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz
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the last leaves on the trees leaking their slow reds and golds the workers sluggish in the fields who are you that I don’t know how to look away don’t…
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