The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Amichai

Author:Yehuda Amichai
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780374715151
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

CHANA BLOCH

I See the Faces of Many Others

Children ask me: What are you dreaming?

As my father asked when I was a child, What

are you dreaming? That’s what I’ve come to now.

My hair turning white is a new beginning

or a flag of slow surrender. Talk of

what happened in the past passes like a cloud

and my mother’s birth-pangs when she gave birth to me

have passed into me, every day a bit of pain.

And what was on earth is in the heavens and what was

in the heavens is on earth. And what was transparent

has turned opaque and what was opaque is transparent now:

when I look out the window

I see only myself outside,

and when I look in the mirror

I see the faces of many others.

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