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Hezy Leskly

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SWEET INSPIRATION

There is nothing
                        but
art.

No famine
No policy
Foreign or domestic

No hiccups or burps
No roses
No tight shoes
No amazing fingers   excellent hands   exquisite fingers

No mashed
            potato

No rain, no heat wave, no mortal
            dread. Just art.

© Translation: 2013, Adriana X. Jacobs

SWEET INSPIRATION

© 2009, Maya Gordon
From: Be`er halav beh-emtza ir
Publisher: Am Oved, Tel Aviv

Hezy Leskly

Hezy Leskly

(Israel, 1952 - 1994)

Poet, choreographer and dance critic Hezy Leskly was born in Israel to Czech Holocaust survivors; he died young, of AIDS, at the height of his creative powers. He had the courage to publicly out his sexual identity as an artist, and also to advance the interests of this community at a time when Israeli society’s receptiveness to gender differences was lower than it is now.

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SWEET INSPIRATION

There is nothing
                        but
art.

No famine
No policy
Foreign or domestic

No hiccups or burps
No roses
No tight shoes
No amazing fingers   excellent hands   exquisite fingers

No mashed
            potato

No rain, no heat wave, no mortal
            dread. Just art.

© 2013, Adriana X. Jacobs
From: Be`er halav beh-emtza ir

SWEET INSPIRATION

There is nothing
                        but
art.

No famine
No policy
Foreign or domestic

No hiccups or burps
No roses
No tight shoes
No amazing fingers   excellent hands   exquisite fingers

No mashed
            potato

No rain, no heat wave, no mortal
            dread. Just art.

© 2013, Adriana X. Jacobs

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