The Twelfth Station

THE TWELFTH STATION: SOBIBOR


1

as he had spoken
from the wilderness:
be fruitful!

(& they were fruitful)

so he could blind them
with a fist
& cut them --

& she could take from them
the vision of
his cities




2

a skin
harp
& a boil

according to its words

how blind
& evil
like its skin

your words
erased


Jerome Rothenberg

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