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Bricks
Translation by Jennie Feldman
You smile. I have the feeling we worked
beside each other building the Tower.
You said: ‘Would you’
I said: ‘Here’.
We piled high places and toiled at bricks.
Small miracles issued from our hands.
Now every ‘Would you’ meets with silence
and every ‘Here’ is a last act of grace
before our ways are confounded.
Only stammerings and memories stir in Babylonia.
Love songs die out before they catch fire.
You ask for my heart in its wholeness
and I know: once more we are scattered.
We’ll wander alone, one language between us
and our hearts divided, subdivided.
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- About the translation:
- Poet:
- Ariel Zinder
- Translator:
- Jennie Feldman
- Original language:
- Hebrew
- Issue:
- Series 3 No.11 - Frontiers
About the author
Original poet
Ariel Zinder
Ariel Zinder was born in 1973 in Berkeley, California, then moved to Israel. He lives in Jerusalem, and writes his poetry in...
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Translator
Jennie Feldman
Jennie Feldman studied French at Oxford University. Her collection of poems, The Lost Notebook (Anvil Press 2005), was shortli...
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