Apr 18 2011
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April 18, 2011: Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car, Dan Pagis
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car
Dan Pagis
here in this carload
i am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him that i
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translated from the Hebrew by Stephen Mitchell
Other Holocaust poems:
September Song, Geoffrey Hill
All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann, Leonard Cohen
On this day in…
2010: The Moss of His Skin, Anne Sexton
2009: It’s This Way, Nazim Hikmet
2008: The Problem With Skin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2007: Serenade, Terrance Hayes
2006: The Old Liberators, Robert Hedin
2005: Morning Song, Sylvia Plath
