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A PROMENADE

Small breasts like clams.
If I wrap my ears in them,
I’ll hear the lovely night fish
fluttering in my guts.

© Translation: 2011, Lisa Katz

A PROMENADE

© 1994, Dvir
From: T. Carmi: Poems 1951-1994
Publisher: Dvir, Tel Aviv

T. Carmi

T. Carmi

(United States of America, 1925 - 1994)

Carmi’s background was international; he absorbed French and English, as well as Hebrew literary traditions. He was born in New York City, in 1925, into a family that spoke only Hebrew at home. When he began composing poetry in his early years, he had the bilingual aptitude of one whose first language – his writing language – was Hebrew, and his second the English of city streets. Carmi was gra...

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A PROMENADE

Small breasts like clams.
If I wrap my ears in them,
I’ll hear the lovely night fish
fluttering in my guts.

© 2011, Lisa Katz
From: T. Carmi: Poems 1951-1994

A PROMENADE

Small breasts like clams.
If I wrap my ears in them,
I’ll hear the lovely night fish
fluttering in my guts.

© 2011, Lisa Katz

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