so much to say 6.3.26

So much going on – I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony – i don’t know where to begin.

It seems like this month is the one where we have finally given up waiting to see whether Trump will decide on a war or not. Bibi, we know, wants a war because that will allow him to win the election in September. The good of the country is not an issue.a

So even though people are getting killed up north every day, and the soldiers are holding back in Lebanon, Tel Aviv is gearing up for cultural activity to an extent I haven’t seen in a long time. Will it be realized? I don’t know. With no funding, no international interchange, I can’t believe that our plans and desires can be fulfilled.

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asher reich

Asher Reich

In his memory, I’m putting up one of 40 poems I translated of his poems:

HAIFA IN WINTER

Haifa in winter is a Japanese woodcut.

There rain silk awaits me, the softest of rains.

The shadow moth sleeps in the damp of the bushes,

and from the dreampuddles a mist slowly rises.

With the delight of clouds, Haifa in winter floats in the air,

and the horizon is sometimes a rice‑paper sail.

Then like a wound in the belly of the city

—the sun‑stained evening.

I will put them all online as soon as my neighbors start hounding me about rebuilding our building (the big fashion in the country right now) and I get through doing the slideshow for Ezi’s birthday. The 2 funerals a week for the past month has totally messed up my schedule.

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