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Chaim Gouri
IT SEEMS TO ME I’M WATCHING OVER WALLS
It seems to me I’m watching over wallsof a city long dead.
Lights shining on me now
are legacies of a light gone out long ago.
I walk among the things that time has left.
And they live without time slowly crumbling in the clocks.
They come back to me, come back to live more slowly.
Alongside ashtrays,
alongside cups of coffee growing cold.
I walk a lot and speculate
and benefit from the doubt
but I’m watching over walls of a city long dead.
© Translation: 1996, Stanley Chyet
From: Words in my Lovesick Blood
Publisher: Wayne State University Press, , 1996
From: Words in my Lovesick Blood
Publisher: Wayne State University Press, , 1996
IT SEEMS TO ME I’M WATCHING OVER WALLS
© 1960, Chaim Gouri
From: Shoshanat Ruxot (Windrose)
Publisher: Ha-kibbutz Ha-meuchad,
From: Shoshanat Ruxot (Windrose)
Publisher: Ha-kibbutz Ha-meuchad,
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IT SEEMS TO ME I’M WATCHING OVER WALLS
It seems to me I’m watching over wallsof a city long dead.
Lights shining on me now
are legacies of a light gone out long ago.
I walk among the things that time has left.
And they live without time slowly crumbling in the clocks.
They come back to me, come back to live more slowly.
Alongside ashtrays,
alongside cups of coffee growing cold.
I walk a lot and speculate
and benefit from the doubt
but I’m watching over walls of a city long dead.
© 1996, Stanley Chyet
From: Words in my Lovesick Blood
Publisher: 1996, Wayne State University Press,
From: Words in my Lovesick Blood
Publisher: 1996, Wayne State University Press,
IT SEEMS TO ME I’M WATCHING OVER WALLS
It seems to me I’m watching over wallsof a city long dead.
Lights shining on me now
are legacies of a light gone out long ago.
I walk among the things that time has left.
And they live without time slowly crumbling in the clocks.
They come back to me, come back to live more slowly.
Alongside ashtrays,
alongside cups of coffee growing cold.
I walk a lot and speculate
and benefit from the doubt
but I’m watching over walls of a city long dead.
© 1996, Stanley Chyet
From: Words in my Lovesick Blood
Publisher: 1996, Wayne State University Press,
From: Words in my Lovesick Blood
Publisher: 1996, Wayne State University Press,
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