Author: Yehuda Amichai

On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery, A Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by […]

A precise woman with a short haircut brings order To my thoughts and my dresser drawers, Moves feelings around like […]

The first rain reminds me Of the rising summer dust. The rain doesn’t remember the rain of yesteryear. A year […]

Memorial day for the war dead. Add now The grief of all your losses to their grief, Even of a […]

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Then let my right be forgotten. Let my right be forgotten, and my left remember. […]

They amputated Your thighs off my hips. As far as I’m concerned They are all surgeons. All of them. They […]

“What kind of a person are you,” I heard them say to me. I’m a person with a complex plumbing […]

Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light in the backyard so it stays lit all the next […]

Near the wall of a house painted To look like stone, I saw visions of God. A sleepless night that […]

Do not accept these rains that come too late. Better to linger. Make your pain An image of the desert. […]

The little park planted in memory of a boy Who fell in the war begins To resemble him As he […]

After you left me I let a dog smell at My chest and my belly. It will fill its nose […]

An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion And on the opposite hill I am searching for […]

God has pity on kindergarten children, He pities school children less. But adults he pities not at all. He abandons […]

Visits of condolence is all we get from them. They squat at the Holocaust Memorial, They put on grave faces […]

The memory of my father is wrapped up in White paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work. Just […]

Yad Mordechai. Those who fell here Still look out the windows like sick children Who are not allowed outside to […]

My child wafts peace. When I lean over him, It is not just the smell of soap. All the people […]

I don’t Know if history repeats itself But I do know that you don’t. I remember that city was didvided […]