God Hid His Face
Selected Poems of RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKY
 
If I, Too

If I, too, had been "there" –
where would the Germans have sent me? 
To the left? 
To the right? 
To the right? 
To the left? 
I ask this of both 
my two hands –
but they are silent 
with the silence of the dead.
 

Translated by Barnett Zumoff

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