1.
I looked for you at the cemetery.
You have two addresses
on a metal door in the grass;
but you don’t live at either one.

                  2.
When I was a child
and sick at night,
you were the moon
above my bed.

Father, father,
I saw you smile
at a sparrow
the way you smiled at me.

                  3.
What else awakes and knows
it was born, it will die.
The same clouds come and go;
the same bird sings or flies.

1979

 = Sarah Kobrinsky