Tuvia Ruebner
By Tuvia Ruebner
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Culture No Way
In a city of holiness and hell, in the land of Moloch, in an autumn spreading hatred like the latest fashion, hatred in which all fears float to the surface, all frustrations like backed-up sewage, there’s no way they won’t shoot the one who wants to murder, or the one they think wants to. Murder…
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Culture POEM: Soldiers’ Memorial Day
They stand among the stones as though not knowing where to turn. The fathers, their faces melting, memory-weary like broken branches hanging from the tree. The wives pity-less, their eyes as wide open as the owl’s. The mothers are emptied as if they’ve swallowed an abyss. Others shudder as though wanting to shed their bodies…
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The Schmooze POEM:’This City [Jerusalem]’
Translated by Rachel Tzvia Back 1 Bound on Her Boulders Bound on her boulders a burnt offering in flames trampled by light of the daily sacrifice this teeming city, longing in its walls within walls scattered towers thin outcries grey wind of the olives torn among the hills yearned-for city of wings from her red…
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘All This Suffering’
Translated by Rachel Tzvia Back All this suffering all the sorrow all this suffering and sorrow in vain all the fear-clenched mothers their eyes disheveled all this sane madness in vain in vain the fathers, all these fathers hiding their hearts pretending in vain all this blood-crazy land in vain, in vain the young faces…
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘Hebrew, My Love’
Translated by Rachel Tzvia Back It’s been a lifetime together. Fifty years? Sixty? How many? We were never like that coiled knot only the slash of the sword could undo. I turned my back on you. You turned your back on me though still we pulled toward each other like magnets to the pole like…
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘Voices’
I am walking. I am always walking. Where am I walking? I am not here. From where is this kindling in my arms? This fire? They are not mine. I am not mine. In vain – I am in your footsteps, in vain… I know, my son, I am the father. I lead you, the…
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