Blown
Linda Stern Zisquit
There are markings
on the hawthorn
with our names
obscured,
stones that
bore our weight
and sighed in relief
at our departure,
a slight breeze
that came to remind us
a soul blown
into the body
is never satisfied.
Linda Stern Zisquit has published six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Korah’s Daughter (2022), Return from Elsewhere (2014) and Havoc: New & Selected Poems (2013). Her translations from Hebrew include Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997), Let the Words: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (2006), and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (2009). She is Associate Professor (emerita) and for many years was poetry coordinator for the Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University. Born in Buffalo, NY, she has lived in Israel since 1978, where she teaches and runs Artspace, a gallery in Jerusalem representing local artists.
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