14
How difficult for me is Hebrew:
even the Hebrew for mother, for bread for sun
is foreign. How far have I been exiled. Zion.


15
I have learnt the Hebrew blessing before eating bread;
is there no blessing before reading Hebrew?


16
My thoughts have become like the ancient Hebrew
in two tenses only, past and future —
I was and I shall be with you.


17
God saw Adam in a town
without flowers and trees and fields to look upon,
and so gave him Eve
to be all these.
There is no furniture for a room
like a beautiful woman.


18
The sun shone on the bare, wet tree;
it became a pyramid of criss-cross lights,
and in each corner the light nested.


19
After I had worked all day at what I earn my living,
I was tired. Now my own work has lost another day,
I thought, but began slowly,
and slowly my strength came back to me.
Surely, the tide comes in twice a day.