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Prairie Schooner 78.1 (2004) 160-161



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Dream of Peaceful Neutrality

Lisa Katz


for R.S.

No flights home
from a foreign country,
not mine, not yours: no tickets.
We lay on the floor
at the foot of the bed
and embraced. You held
a long branch from a flowering almond tree in your hand,
not a stick not a whip not a baton.
I was neither frightened
nor bewitched,
we made no music.
O homely world without tragedy:
separate beings
in harmony,
giving
taking
small amounts
for which there is no accounting [End Page 160]
like birds eating plums that remain on the trees after the season,
the geranium's dried leaves unfallen among the new green shoots,
the apples and the oranges they can never be
together shyly
in a bowl on the table.





Lisa Katz has lived in Israel since 1983. Her poetry has appeared in the Mississippi Review, and her translations of Israeli literature have appeared in American Poetry Review and the New Yorker.

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