original poems

three haiku for kanreki — 還暦 (spring 2017)

SNAFU, FUBAR (summer 2015)

Reflections on life, from a trip to southern Utah (fall 2010)

Four of my poems and one translation are included in the The Book of Beginnings, which can be obtained here:

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translations

from Russian into Hebrew and English

• Sonnet, by Joseph Brodsky (1962)
  in memoriam Shlomo Edelman (October 28, 1922 — January 30, 2004)
  [original appears alongside translation]
• The July Intermezzo by Joseph Brodsky (1961)
  Part 10, the last two stanzas.

from Russian into English

• A Song of Innocence; Also of Experience, by Joseph Brodsky (1972)
  [the original is here; set Mozilla to KOI8-R encoding]

• Nativity, by Joseph Brodsky (1986)
  [the original is here]

from Hebrew into English

• the last two stanzas of Natan Alterman's The Mole (from the Joy of the Poor cycle)
• A song by Rachel (1927)
  [the original is here]
• Are you the end by Rachel (1927)
  [the original is here]
• My dead by Rachel (1931)
  [the original is here]

from French into English

• a poem ("Un son de cor...")
• another poem ("Il me revient quelquefois ...")