Monday, April 26, 2010

a poem by yehuda amichai

Of Three or Four in a Room

Of three or four in a room
there is always one who stands beside the window.
He must see evil sprouting among the thorns
and fires on the hill.
And how men who went out of their houses whole
are given back in the evening like small change.

Of three or four in a room
there is always one who stands beside the window.
His dark hair over his thoughts.
Behind him, words.
And in front of him voices wandering without a knapsack,
hearts without supplies, prophecies without water,
and large stones which have been returned
and remain sealed, like letters which have no
address and no one to receive them.

Amichai, Yehuda. "Of Three or Four in a Room" Voices Within The Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets. New York: Avon Books, 1980.

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