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Aryeh Sivan
BETWEEN THE AVENUE AND THE SEA
I remember my kindergarten in Tel Avivon Jewish National Fund Avenue, in a housing project,
the first or second building from the left.
More than anything else I remember the ceremony of the first fruits –
onions and radishes from our garden given to the Fund.
West of my kindergarten,
between it and the sea,
was a Moslem cemetery. When I was young
I went there with girls
showered my first seed on their thighs,
on the edges of their stomachs.
How many descendants I could have placed, then,
between the tombstones, on the graves
of Arabs.
© Translation: 2011, Lisa Katz
BETWEEN THE AVENUE AND THE SEA
© 2009, Aryeh Sivan
From: Al hol veh-al-yam
Publisher: Keshev, Tel Aviv
From: Al hol veh-al-yam
Publisher: Keshev, Tel Aviv
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BETWEEN THE AVENUE AND THE SEA
I remember my kindergarten in Tel Avivon Jewish National Fund Avenue, in a housing project,
the first or second building from the left.
More than anything else I remember the ceremony of the first fruits –
onions and radishes from our garden given to the Fund.
West of my kindergarten,
between it and the sea,
was a Moslem cemetery. When I was young
I went there with girls
showered my first seed on their thighs,
on the edges of their stomachs.
How many descendants I could have placed, then,
between the tombstones, on the graves
of Arabs.
© 2011, Lisa Katz
From: Al hol veh-al-yam
From: Al hol veh-al-yam
BETWEEN THE AVENUE AND THE SEA
I remember my kindergarten in Tel Avivon Jewish National Fund Avenue, in a housing project,
the first or second building from the left.
More than anything else I remember the ceremony of the first fruits –
onions and radishes from our garden given to the Fund.
West of my kindergarten,
between it and the sea,
was a Moslem cemetery. When I was young
I went there with girls
showered my first seed on their thighs,
on the edges of their stomachs.
How many descendants I could have placed, then,
between the tombstones, on the graves
of Arabs.
© 2011, Lisa Katz
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