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Another Ghetto
By Louis Faber

She sits
in the bookstore cafe
her head covered
by a linen handkerchief
bobby pinned to the
mass of walnut curls.
She cradles the cup
of cooling coffee
and stares down
at the slim book
of Amichai, subservient
to the Hebrew letters
that seem to dance
across the page.
I sit at the adjoining table
with my used
copy of Bialik, translated.
I glance at her
and say ""I’ll miss him"
with a nod to Amichai
and then "where are you from?"
She smiles faintly
self-consciously, "I am
from Atlanta."
"From what part?"
"Warsaw, inside
the walls and wire,
that place from which
so few of us
ever manage to escape."

Louis Faber is a poet and attorney from Rochester, New York, studying for an MFA in Creative Writing. "I have been writing forever it seems. My work has been published (among other places) in European Judaism and Midstream. Among my muses are Amichai, Darwish, Ravikovitch and Klepfisz." Write to him at Louis Faber And visit his website for more poetry.

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