Yehuda Amichai - A Jewish Cemetery In Germany

Yehuda Amichai - A Jewish Cemetery In Germany

On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery, br a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs, br abandoned and forgotten. Neither the sound of prayer br nor the voice of lamentation is heard there br for the dead praise not the Lord. br Only the voices of our children ring out, seeking graves br and cheering br each time they find one--like mushrooms in the forest, like br wild strawberries. br Here's another grave! There's the name of my mother's br mothers, and a name from the last century. And here's a name, br and there! And as I was about to brush the moss from the name-- br Look! an open hand engraved on the tombstone, the grave br of a kohen, br his fingers splayed in a spasm of holiness and blessing, br and here's a grave concealed by a thicket of berries br that has to be brushed aside like a shock of hair br from the face of a beautiful beloved woman.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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