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Anat Zecharia

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EVERYTHING\'S FINE

They ask: what
have you been doing lately?
I answer: waving castanets in the air
from left to right, up and down,
and so my arms ache at night.
I’m looking around,
waiting, just waiting
until I have the strength
to fall down.
Meanwhile a shout takes off
while I myself in complete silence
let some silly
cooing and ahh-ing escape
from the back of my neck
nothing else
after “Everything’s fine,
thanks a lot.”

© Translation: 2010, Lisa Katz

EVERYTHING\'S FINE

© 2008, Anat Zecharya
From: Yafa Ahat Kodem
Publisher: Helicon, Tel Aviv

Anat Zecharia

Anat Zecharia

Anat Zecharia is an outspoken young poet who writes forthrightly about women’s desires. She does not ignore the times when being on either side of the power equation is part of erotic experience, and she casts her light on the way Israeli politics influences Israeli sex lives.

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EVERYTHING\'S FINE

They ask: what
have you been doing lately?
I answer: waving castanets in the air
from left to right, up and down,
and so my arms ache at night.
I’m looking around,
waiting, just waiting
until I have the strength
to fall down.
Meanwhile a shout takes off
while I myself in complete silence
let some silly
cooing and ahh-ing escape
from the back of my neck
nothing else
after “Everything’s fine,
thanks a lot.”

© 2010, Lisa Katz
From: Yafa Ahat Kodem

EVERYTHING\'S FINE

They ask: what
have you been doing lately?
I answer: waving castanets in the air
from left to right, up and down,
and so my arms ache at night.
I’m looking around,
waiting, just waiting
until I have the strength
to fall down.
Meanwhile a shout takes off
while I myself in complete silence
let some silly
cooing and ahh-ing escape
from the back of my neck
nothing else
after “Everything’s fine,
thanks a lot.”

© 2010, Lisa Katz

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