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"When Adam sleeps, rain dowses the light.."
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11: The Necessary Eye
Issue 10: Out on a Limb
Issue 9: The Missing Body
Issue 8: The Lily
Issue 7: Passages
Issue 6: No More Tears
A quick list to poets featured in this
issue:
Melissa Ahart
Sommer Browning
Sarah Busse
devin wayne davis
Karen D'Amato
Yaakov Fichman
Donna Johnson
Vera Kroms
Li Bo
Li Qingzhao
Ander Monson
Christopher Mulrooney
Rahel
Todd Samuelson
Maria Terrone
Mihai Ursachi
Sophie Wadsworth
G.C. Waldrep
Martha Zweig
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Yaakov Fichman translated from
the Hebrew by
Jeff Friedman and
Nathan Schwartz
Eve
I love Adam. Like God, he is wise
and generous, and his blood is precious,
but the serpent whispers cruel thoughts in my ear,
his sweet breath passing over my body.
When Adam sleeps, rain dowses the light
in the garden, and the birds grow silent and fearful.
He calls me from the bushes, he calls me from the leaves
kindling a fire in my heart: "Taste it," he says, "taste it."
In the precise light of dawn, Adam's warm hand
caresses me, and he finds comfort on my breast
for he listens to the sound of my heart.
Yet every bush that reaches for the sun
leans to a different side in the dark, and the garden
is lush and lovely until night falls among the leaves.
Nathan Schwartz is a former Israeli soldier who now lives in the U.S.A.
Jeff Friedman is the author of three collections of poetry: Taking Down the Angel (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2003), Scattering the Ashes (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998), and The Record-Breaking Heat Wave (BkMk Press- University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1986). His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, Manoa, New England Review and 5 AM.
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