On The Margins Of A Poem

Portrait of Jiri Mordecai Langer
Jiri Mordecai Langer 1894–1943

The poem that I chose for you is simple, as are all my singing poems.

It has the trace of a veil, a little balsam, and a taste of the honey of lies.

There is also the coming end of summer when heat scorches the meadow and the quick waters of the river cease to flow.

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