Rachel Korn | Poems

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Translated by Edward Ginsburg

Wringing hands like one bereft,
When pain pervades the trembling limb,
Listening to each crackling finger,
Struggling with its mute lament.

Anguished words like mourner’s hands,
Vain to sever them apart,
From their destined sacrifice,
Their pledge with sorrow.

They twist and struggle, strangling
Your naked throat and clamor,
And abiding fractured, broken,
Like frozen hands of a mourner in his grief.