death. Its weight is not great.
How lightly and with what casual grace
we carry it with us everywhere we go.

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fragment from "The Eighth Part (At Least) of Everything", collected in The Remains of Life (1978). Translation from the Hebrew by Robert Friend in Burning Air and a Clear Mind: Contemporary Israeli Women Poets edited by Myra Glazer (1981)

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