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Put Your Word to My Lips
Translated by Seymour. Mayne with Rivka Augenfeld

Put the word to my lips
like a signature at the end of a page.
send me – where? I don’t know –
for who waits there but the dark syllable?

I have been anointed with sadness
like the queen of endless night.
She does not know whether she is in a dream
or someone has imagined her.

Perhaps she has only been gambled away
to Fate’s winning hand – wagered
as a stake and forfeited,
abandoned to the wind, to the unknown?

Put the word to my lips
and lead me like a child by the hand
to the border outlined by tears
frontier at the country of night.

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