weather of the body

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Last Your Hair Dried
 

Last your hair dried.

When we were already far from the sea,

when words and salt, which mixed on us,

separated from each other

with a sigh, 

and your body no longer showed

signs of terrible antecedents.

In vain we forgot a few things on the beach,

as a pretext to return.

We did not return.


And these days I remember the days

on which your name was fixed like a name on a ship.

And how we saw, through two open doors,

a man thinking, and how we looked

at the clouds with the ancient look

we inherited from our fathers

waiting for rain,

and how at night, when the world had cooled,

your body held on to its heat a long time

like a sea.



-Yehuda Amichai

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