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I’d Love to Meet Your Mother Once
Translated by Shulamis Yelin

I’d Love to meet your mother once
And kiss her hands.
No doubt she’d find you in my eyes
And all your words which I have cherished in my glance.

Perhaps she’d even come to meet me
With a smile so wise, so still
That always blooms on mothers’ lips
When they see mirrored in the eyes of other women
Their own passion for their son.

Or again, perhaps-
Perhaps her look would warn me,
(mothers always know far more than other women)
of the wild grief
and the bitter joy
of loving her son.

I’d love to meet your mother once
And kiss her hands.

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