In the breadth of your hand that you reached out towards me
Stars danced
Between your fingers
The sun shone
Sheaves bowed around us.

I strained to see
I peered more closely
God was there, then, in the palm of your hand.

In the small crack,
A moment before
You hardened me completely.
In the ever-thickening light around me
It was already hard to discern.

The whole of your weight
On me
And I am hardened
Too hardened, to know.

That when you removed your hand
From all my openings
I realized you’d taken God from me
And gone.

(Translated by Leah Hartman)

בְּרֹחַב הַיָּד שֶׁפָּרַשְׂתָּ מוּל עֵינַי
רִקְּדוּ הַכּוֹכָבִים.
מִבֵּין הָאֶצְבָּעוֹת
זָהֲרָה הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ
אֲלֻמּוֹת הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ סְבִיבֵנוּ.

לֹא הֵיטַבְתִּי לִרְאוֹת,
קֵרַבְתִּי מַבַּט
אֱלֹהִים הָיָה מֻנָּח אָז בְּכַף יָדְךָ.

בֶּחָרָךְ הַקָּטָן
רֶגַע לִפְנֵי
שֶׁעָצַמְתָּ אֶת כֻּלִּי,
בָּאוֹר הַהוֹלֵךְ וּמַסְמִיךְ סְבִיבִי
קָשֶׁה הָיָה כְּבָר לְהַבְחִין.

כֹּל כֹּבֶד מִשְׁקָלְךָ
עָלַי
וַאֲנִי עֲצוּמָה
לָדַעַת

כְּשֶׁהֵסַרְתָּ אֶת יָדְךָ
מִכֹּל פְּתָחַי
גִּלִּיתִי שֶׁלָּקַחְתָּ לִי אֶת אֱלֹהִים
וְהָלַכְתָּ