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Blue Fog
Translated by Seymour Levitan

To the president and Rachel Shazar

Blue fog on the Galilean hills;
a scattering of stars
and the full moon rules;
the whole sky is hers.

The moonlight falls on Kinneret,
and the waves curl pink,
as if a morning star, sunk and forgotten in the water,
were waking from his dreams.

In a courtyard, the sad unearthly
sobbing of a donkey-
dreaming
his heavy burden of the day to come.

And bats circle, circle, circle
over water, hill, and tree,
as if the night were shooting arrows,
dark arrows into the hidden heart of dreams.

Tiberias, December 1965

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