Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky

Author:Ilya Kaminsky [Kaminsky, Ilya]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Russian & Former Soviet Union, Fiction, Poetry, Verse, Poems
ISBN: 9781932195125
Google: 9nLhBwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00M6RPF5A
Publisher: Arc Publications
Published: 2014-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

A Toast

If you will it, it is no dream.

—Theodore Herzl

October: grapes hung like the fists of a girl

gassed in her prayer. Memory,

I whisper, stay awake.

In my veins

long syllables tighten their ropes, rains come

right out of the eighteenth century

Yiddish or a darker language in which imagination

is the only word.

Imagination! a young girl dancing polka,

unafraid, betrayed by the Lord’s death

(or his hiding under the bed when the Messiah

was postponed).

In my country, evenings bring the rain water, turning

poplars bronze in a light that sparkles on these pages

where I, my fathers,

unable to describe your dreams, drink

my silence from a cup.

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