Poem
T. Carmi
AT ALL TIMES
Your hand is smaller than mine,but I see your body
from one end of the world to another.
You speak quietly,
but I hear you
on thunder over the sea.
The enlargement terrifies.
I move near or far,
but I can’t decipher the writing.
There’s no deception in you,
but you ambush me in mountain passes,
between daybreak and dawn,
between the dog and the wolf.
© Translation: 1983, JPS and Grace Schulman
From: At the Stone of Losses
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society & University of California Press, Philadelphia, PA & Berkeley, CA, 1983
From: At the Stone of Losses
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society & University of California Press, Philadelphia, PA & Berkeley, CA, 1983
AT ALL TIMES
© 1994, Dvir
From: T. Carmi: Poems 1951-1994
Publisher: Dvir, Tel Aviv
From: T. Carmi: Poems 1951-1994
Publisher: Dvir, Tel Aviv
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AT ALL TIMES
Your hand is smaller than mine,but I see your body
from one end of the world to another.
You speak quietly,
but I hear you
on thunder over the sea.
The enlargement terrifies.
I move near or far,
but I can’t decipher the writing.
There’s no deception in you,
but you ambush me in mountain passes,
between daybreak and dawn,
between the dog and the wolf.
© 1983, JPS and Grace Schulman
From: At the Stone of Losses
Publisher: 1983, Jewish Publication Society & University of California Press, Philadelphia, PA & Berkeley, CA
From: At the Stone of Losses
Publisher: 1983, Jewish Publication Society & University of California Press, Philadelphia, PA & Berkeley, CA
AT ALL TIMES
Your hand is smaller than mine,but I see your body
from one end of the world to another.
You speak quietly,
but I hear you
on thunder over the sea.
The enlargement terrifies.
I move near or far,
but I can’t decipher the writing.
There’s no deception in you,
but you ambush me in mountain passes,
between daybreak and dawn,
between the dog and the wolf.
© 1983, JPS and Grace Schulman
From: At the Stone of Losses
Publisher: 1983, Jewish Publication Society & University of California Press, Philadelphia, PA & Berkeley, CA
From: At the Stone of Losses
Publisher: 1983, Jewish Publication Society & University of California Press, Philadelphia, PA & Berkeley, CA
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