Andrew ShieldsMar 4, 2023

You think it’s me

Mistakes
Dan Pagis, tr. Lisa Katz

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https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-18712_MISTAKES

MISTAKES

You think I’ve finally arrived, but these are only the first heavy footsteps of rain. You think it’s a new sorrow, but it’s only a whitewashed wall from time immemorial. It’s te...

David McKNov 18, 2022

This is in the excellent anthology 'The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950 - 1492' translated by Peter Cole.

This is the only poem by a woman in the book. Read the notes in the second photo.

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