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Rachel
“Meeting, hardly meeting”
Meeting, hardly meeting, suffices:one quick glance, fragments of obscure words,
and again waves of happiness and pain
sweep over everything and rage.
The dam of oblivion I had built in my defence
is as if it had never been.
I kneel on the shore of the roaring sea
and drink my fill.
© Translation: 1994, Jean Shapiro Cantu. Robert Friend
From: Flowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Rachel
Publisher: Menard, London, 1994
From: Flowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Rachel
Publisher: Menard, London, 1994
"MEETING, HARDLY MEETING"
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“Meeting, hardly meeting”
Meeting, hardly meeting, suffices:one quick glance, fragments of obscure words,
and again waves of happiness and pain
sweep over everything and rage.
The dam of oblivion I had built in my defence
is as if it had never been.
I kneel on the shore of the roaring sea
and drink my fill.
© 1994, Jean Shapiro Cantu. Robert Friend
From: Flowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Rachel
Publisher: 1994, Menard, London
From: Flowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Rachel
Publisher: 1994, Menard, London
“Meeting, hardly meeting”
Meeting, hardly meeting, suffices:one quick glance, fragments of obscure words,
and again waves of happiness and pain
sweep over everything and rage.
The dam of oblivion I had built in my defence
is as if it had never been.
I kneel on the shore of the roaring sea
and drink my fill.
© 1994, Jean Shapiro Cantu. Robert Friend
From: Flowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Rachel
Publisher: 1994, Menard, London
From: Flowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Rachel
Publisher: 1994, Menard, London
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