Poems by Aaron Rafi
After Exile
... ever we walked we searched for a grave: as someonesaid, “You entered the desert searching for sand ...
Mandelstam -- A Biography
... His pace wasunhurried and he did not delude himself by holding a jacket ora newspaper over his head ...
An Open Letter to the Unacknowledged One
... d was so close but we were carried away on acaravan of days and it seemed as if we would liveforever ...
Voronezh
... point of the interrogator’squestion, then the light sank into the snow andthat is all, that is all ...
Walking with Mandelstam
... so that I could relive the moment when I wasjarred out of my sleeping day and into the force oflife ...
While I Wrote This a Battering Ram of Knives Excavated Old Wounds -- The Poem Attacking Stalin
... er that lives on in the memory of spring, thesmell of muck and weeds that once filled its emptybelly ...
The Writing of That Poem
... rse and I never thought of stopping it any more thanI would have attempted to stop the coming season ...
