Ella Bat-Tsion

Dolls go crazy

Dolls go crazy
On a chair
In the nude

Hair within hair
Of animal
Stage Setting for a dream

Stage Setting
Of animals
In the hair
In the nude

On a chair
Dolls go crazy

-Gabriella Elisha/Ella Bat-Tsion-
Verbal Respiration, 1980

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The thighs’ pulse weakens.
The heart’s pulse relaxes
(a gallop in slow movement)

Fingers
A staccato of words
Between two bodies.

-Gabriella Elisha/Ella Bat-Tsion-
Another Music, 1983

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Music is prayer. There’s no disagreement.
Humans pray to God
For timely rain, timely sun, comradely and love

But let there be silence, please, the creating silence.

-Gabriella Elisha/Ella Bat-Tsion-
A Different Music, 1983

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The Name of My Girlfriend

On about the ten thousandth night
I go to bed

These last few nights smoke creates images for me
Which suddenly pass
In the glare of the flashlight I cannot see
Anything that should not have been here
I illuminate the page to write down a few words

It’s fitting that I write The Name
Of my girlfriend
It’s fitting that I close my eyes.

-Gabriella Elisha/Ella Bat-Tsion-
Inspiration, 1987

Runot hebreasta englanniksi kääntänyt Ofer Shorr.

Israelilainen Gabriella Elisha (s.1954) julkaisi 1970- ja 1980-luvuilla viidessä runokirjassaan runoja, joissa hän käsitteli toiseuttaan ja vierauttaan juutalaisessa yhteisössä ja kulttuurissa naista rakastavana naisena.

1990-luvulla hän muutti nimensä Ella Bat-Tsioniksi. Ja, jatkoi erikoislaatuista runoiluaan :)

Fingers
A staccato of words
Between two bodies.

Music is prayer. There’s no disagreement.
Humans pray to God

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