Rain and Deceit
         
         
        In every city a strange man 
        waits for her, sad and circumspect as her childhood 
        cypress growing in the courtyard of the house, 
        he offers her a home. 
        Her docile voice tells her to enter, 
        her inner voice, 
        she need only choose, 
        to soar 
        on a cloud as transparent as a lie 
        in the corner of her eye. 
        She can truly believe 
        in this; 
        she invests the better part of her power 
        in this; 
        puzzling ruses struggle 
        to come out, as at a parting hour 
        she learned to prolong and cut short, 
        in the depths of her delusion. 
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        İRachel Eshed. İtr. David Cooper. The Hebrew text is a digitized copy
        taken from HAVTACHOT
        KATANOT(LITTLE PROMISES)
        published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., P.O.B. 1432,
        Bnei Brak 51114 (Tel Aviv) in 1996; with permission. 
        
          
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