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Foreword | |
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God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children | |
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The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in Jerusalem | |
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Autobiography, 1952 | |
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The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose | |
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Six Poems for Tamar | |
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Yehuda Ha-Levi | |
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Ibn Gabirol | |
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When I Was a Child | |
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Look: Thoughts and Dreams | |
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From We Loved Here | |
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God's Hand in the World | |
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Sort of an Apocalypse | |
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And That Is Your Glory | |
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Of Three or Four in a Room | |
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Not Like a Cypress | |
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Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass | |
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Half the People in the World | |
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For My Birthday | |
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Two Photographs | |
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Poems for a Woman | |
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Children's Procession | |
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Ballad of the Washed Hair | |
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Sonnet from the Voyage | |
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The Visit of the Queen of Sheba | |
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From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains | |
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As for the World | |
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In the Middle of This Century | |
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Farewell | |
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Such as Sorrow | |
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Jerusalem | |
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Before | |
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And as Far as Abu Ghosh | |
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You Too Got Tired | |
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The Place Where We Are Right | |
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Mayor | |
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Resurrection | |
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From Summer or Its End | |
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In the Full Severity of Mercy | |
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Too Many | |
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Poem for Arbor Day | |
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Jacob and the Angel | |
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Here | |
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Elegy on an Abandoned Village | |
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The Elegy on the Lost Child | |
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Jerusalem, 1967 | |
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The Bull Returns | |
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A Luxury | |
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To Bake the Bread of Yearning | |
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National Thoughts | |
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A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention | |
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Elegy | |
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Threading | |
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Now in the Storm | |
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Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela | |
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Jews in the Land of Israel | |
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Wildpeace | |
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The Way It Was | |
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Instead of Words | |
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Gifts of Love | |
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Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires | |
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Psalm | |
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Seven Laments for the War-Dead | |
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Like the Inner Wall of a House | |
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Love Song | |
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I've Grown Very Hairy | |
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A Dog After Love | |
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A Bridge Without a Dowry | |
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The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail | |
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To a Convert | |
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My Father in a White Space Suit | |
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A Letter of Recommendation | |
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On the Day I Left | |
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A Letter | |
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In a Leap Year | |
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A Quiet Joy | |
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A Mutual Lullaby | |
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From Songs of Zion the Beautiful | |
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Songs of Continuity | |
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At the Monastery of Latroun | |
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When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young | |
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I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once | |
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To My Love, Combing Her Hair | |
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The Diameter of the Bomb | |
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When I Banged My Head on the Door | |
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You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks | |
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Advice for Good Love | |
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You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain | |
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A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem | |
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When a Man's Far Away from His Country | |
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The Eve of Rosh Hashanah | |
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I've Already Been Weaned | |
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In the Garden, at the White Table | |
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From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment | |
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So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor | |
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Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home | |
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Near the Wall of a House | |
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You Can Rely on Him | |
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You Mustn't Show Weakness | |
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Lost Objects | |
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Forgetting Someone | |
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"The Rustle of History's Wings," as They Used to Say Then | |
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1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma'ayan Harod | |
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An Eternal Window | |
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There Are Candles That Remember | |
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On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died | |
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All These Make a Dance Rhythm | |
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In the Morning It Was Still Night | |
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A Child Is Something Else Again | |
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When I Have a Stomachache | |
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I Feel Just Fine in My Pants | |
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Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews | |
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Ecology of Jerusalem | |
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In the Old City | |
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Tourists | |
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An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion | |
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A Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve | |
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The Parents Left the Child | |
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Love Is Finished Again | |
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End of Summer in the Judean Mountains | |
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Relativity | |
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Poem Without an End | |
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A Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers | |
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1924 | |
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Half-Sized Violin | |
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A Pace Like That | |
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The Box | |
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The Last Word Is the Captain | |
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Statistics | |
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The Hour of Grace | |
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What a Complicated Mess | |
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I Lost My Identity Card | |
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On Mount Muhraka | |
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Summer Begins | |
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Hamadiya | |
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At the Seashore | |
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On Some Other Planet You May Be Right | |
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Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv | |
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A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport | |
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Almost a Love Poem | |
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They Are All Dice | |
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A Precise Woman | |
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Jasmine | |
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Kibbutz Gevaram | |
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History | |
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The Real Hero | |
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At the Maritime Museum | |
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Try to Remember Some Details | |
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A Man in His Life | |
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My Mother Comes from the Days | |
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Now She's Breathing | |
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My Mother Died on Shavuot | |
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The Body Is the Cause of Love | |
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Orchard | |
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Late Marriage | |
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Inside the Apple | |
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North of Beersheba | |
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I Guard the Children | |
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North of San Francisco | |
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Fall in Connecticut | |
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Sandals | |
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Jerusalem, 1985 | |
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Evidence | |
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The Course of a Life | |
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What Kind of Man | |
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The Greatest Desire | |
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Two Disappeared into a House | |
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I Know a Man | |
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Between | |
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Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains | |
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At the Beach | |
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The Sea and the Shore | |
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Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents | |
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Yom Kippur | |
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Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim | |
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Ruhama | |
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Huleikat - The Third Poem about Dicky | |
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The Shore of Ashkelon | |
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Fields of Sunflowers | |
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First Rain on a Burned Car | |
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We Did What We Had To | |
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Notes | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index of Titles | |