Poems Rethabile Likes

Words Against the Clouds by Breyten Breytenbach | Poems Rethabile Likes Words Against the Clouds by Breyten Breytenbach —‘shoe’ ‘desert rose’ ‘mud’— (luck wanted that I could today pick up a few words for you to be able to describe that one doesn’t only walk and think about nothing on the ground, but also about words in their meaning be seen, between toilet rolls, images, fossilised fish (don’t step on the wrong words! ‘laying the terror of mines,’ you once said ‘is in the delayed action; plant your bomb and one day, much later, someone who you don’t know is blown sky high’...

The Amen Stone by Yehuda Amichai (translated by Chana Bloch & Chana Kronfeld) | Poems Rethabile Likes The Amen Stone by Yehuda Amichai On my desk there is a stone with the word "Amen" on it, a triangular fragment of stone from a Jewish graveyard destroyed many generations ago. The other fragments, hundreds upon hundreds, were scattered helter-skelter, and a great yearning, a longing without end, fills them all: first name in search of family name, date of death seeks dead man's birthplace, son's name wishes to locate name of father, date of birth seeks reunion with soul that wishes to rest in peace. And until they have found on...