God Hid His Face
Selected Poems of RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKY
 
This Is Not the Road

This is not the road and this is not the city - Book of Kings

 
This is not the road 
and this is not the city. 
And where is the road? 
Where is the city? 
The sun is ready to go down, 
and I have not yet found 
the spot, 
the stone 
on which to lean my head for a night's rest 
and again see the ladder in my dreams, 
with the angels 
who still deliver me 
from the flames.
 
Translated by Aaron Kramer

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