Now Sleep
1
Things no one
praises.
Hallucinatory landscapes,
a blot on my brow and my tired
hands.
Three little blunders
die.
2
An electric current but more delicate
on the soles of my feet, and a kind of sudden joy
that I have a bed, that my palms are whole,
and also unblemished and fine.
Shshsh, now sleep, blind
like a young childs dream.
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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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