Index of Titles

Advice for Good Love, 119

All These Make a Dance Rhythm, 132

Almost a Love Poem, 153

And as Far as Abu Ghosh, 33

And That Is Your Glory, 11

Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion, An, 138

As for the World, 29

At the Beach, 175

At the Maritime Museum, 157

At the Monastery of Latroun, 115

At the Seashore, 150

Autobiography, 1952, 2

Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents, 176

Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv, 152

Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires, 90

Ballad of the Washed Hair, 20

Before, 33

Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim, 178

Between, 173

Body Is the Cause of Love, The, 162

Box, The, 145

Bride Without a Dowry, A, 98

Bull Returns, The, 55

Child Is Something Else Again, A, 133

Children’s Procession, 20

Course of a Life, The, 170

Diameter of the Bomb, The, 118

Dice, 153

Dog After Love, A, 98

Ecology of Jerusalem, 136

Elegy, 58

Elegy on an Abandoned Village, 42

Elegy on the Lost Child, The, 43

End of Summer in the Judean Mountains, 140

Eternal Window, An, 130

Eve of Rosh Hashanah, The, 122

Evidence, 169

Fall in Connecticut, 167

Farewell, 31

Fields of Sunflowers, 181

First Rain on a Burned Car, 181

Flock of Sheep Near the Airport, A, 152

Forgetting Someone, 128

For My Birthday, 15

From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment, 124

Gifts of Love, 90

God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children, 1

God’s Hand in the World, 10

Greatest Desire, The, 172

Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers, A, 142

Half-Sized Violin, 143

Half the People in the World, 14

Hamadiya, 150

Here, 41

History, 156

Hour of Grace, The, 146

Huleikat—The Third Poem About Dicky, 179

Ibn Gabirol, 6

I Feel Just Fine in My Pants, 135

I Guard the Children, 165

I Know a Man, 173

I Lost My Identity Card, 148

In a Leap Year, 103

In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains, 27

Inside the Apple, 164

Instead of Words, 89

In the Full Severity of Mercy, 38

In the Garden, at the White Table, 123

In the Middle of This Century, 30

In the Morning It Was Still Night, 133

In the Old City, 136

I’ve Already Been Weaned, 123

I’ve Grown Very Hairy, 97

I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once, 117

Jacob and the Angel, 40

Jasmine, 154

Jerusalem, 32

Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews, 135

Jerusalem, 1967, 47

Jerusalem, 1985, 169

Jews in the Land of Israel, 87

Kibbutz Gevaram, 155

Last Word Is the Captain, The, 145

Late Marriage, 163

Letter, A, 102

Letter of Recommendation, A, 101

Like the Inner Wall of a House, 96

Look: Thoughts and Dreams, 7

Lost Objects, 128

Love Is Finished Again, 140

Love Song, 97

Luxury, A, 55

Man in His Life, A, 158

Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem, A, 121

Mayor, 35

Mutual Lullaby, A, 104

My Father in a White Space Suit, 100

My Mother Comes from the Days, 159

My Mother Died on Shavuot, 161

National Thoughts, 57

Near the Wall of a House, 126

1924, 143

1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma‘ayan Harod, 129

North of Beersheba, 164

North of San Francisco, 166

Not Like a Cypress, 12

Now in the Storm, 59

Now She’s Breathing, 160

Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home, 125

Of Three or Four in a Room, 12

On Mount Muhraka, 148

On Some Other Planet You May Be Right, 151

On the Day I Left, 101

On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died, 131

Orchard, 162

Pace Like That, A, 144

Parents Left the Child, The, 139

A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention, 57

Place Where We Are Right, The, 34

Poem for Arbor Day, 39

Poems for a Woman, 17

Poem Without an End, 142

Precise Woman, A, 154

Psalm, 91

Quiet Joy, A, 104

Real Hero, The, 156

Relativity, 141

Resurrection, 35

Ruhama, 179

“The Rustle of History’s Wings,” as They Used to Say Then, 128

Sandals, 168

Sea and the Shore, The, 176

Seven Laments for the War-Dead, 92

Shore of Ashkelon, The, 180

Six Poems for Tamar, 4

Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose, The, 3

So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor, 124

Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve, A, 138

Songs of Continuity, 115

Songs of Zion the Beautiful, 105

Sonnet from the Voyage, 21

Sort of an Apocalypse, 10

Statistics, 146

Such as Sorrow, 32

Summer Begins, 149

Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains, 174

Summer or Its End, 36

Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail, The, 99

There Are Candles That Remember, 131

Threading, 59

Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass, 13

To a Convert, 99

To Bake the Bread of Yearning, 56

To My Love, Combing Her Hair, 117

Too Many, 39

Tourists, 137

Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela, 60

Try to Remember Some Details, 158

Two Disappeared into a House, 173

Two Photographs, 16

U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner’s House in Jerusalem, The, 1

Visit of the Queen of Sheba, The, 21

Way It Was, The, 88

We Did What We Had To, 182

We Loved Here, 8

What a Complicated Mess, 147

What Kind of Man, 171

When a Man’s Far Away from His Country, 121

When I Banged My Head on the Door, 118

When I Have a Stomachache, 134

When I Was a Child, 6

When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young, 116

Wildpeace, 88

Yehuda Ha-Levi, 5

Yom Kippur, 177

You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain, 120

You Can Rely on Him, 126

You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks, 119

You Mustn’t Show Weakness, 127

You Too Got Tired, 34