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May 2, 1986
Resurrection
Translated by Chana Bloch
Afterward they will get up
all together, and with a sound of chairs scraping
they will face the narrow exit.
And their clothes are crumpled
and covered with dust and cigarette ashes
and their hand discovers in the inside pocket
a ticket stub from a very previous season.
And their faces are still crisscrossed
with God's will.
And their eyes are red from so much sleeplessness
under the ground.
And right away, questions:
What time is it?
Where did you put mine?
When? When?
And one of them can be seen in an ancient
scanning of the sky, to see if rain.
Or a women,
with an age-old gesture, wipes her eyes
and lifts the heavy hear
at the back of her neck.
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