The Moon over Timna
In a copper house
Lived the new moon,
The new moon
Of Timna.
In a copper coat
With a thousand buttons
It was
Buttoned. –
The copper house
Got quiet
In Timna –
It used to go out,
In the dark night of course,
With its thin
Sword
Circling
Over copper
Over copper
Timna –
When it grew old;
The new moon
Grew old –
The new moon –
With its thin sword,
Turned itself
To coal –
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Rikudah Potash
was born in Ojcov, Poland, in 1906. She began writing in Polish but later switched to Yiddish. In 1934 she emigrated to Palestine, where she befriended German-language poet Else Lasker-Schueler and published several books of poetry. She worked as a librarian at the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem until her death in 1965.Michael Casper is a doctoral student in History at the University of California, Los Angeles.