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Bright Lord and Bad Guys
Award-winning poetry translator shares two of her own poems
Bright Lord (there are muscles everywhere)
- I am tapping the pulse of the faucet water
- and winding a string of light from the rain gutter
- I’m pressing the window glass which presumes
- tension between inner and outer
- my bright-toothed lord, it hurts
- the fatigue of clicking future tense
- into the present past, the stiffened tongue
- on my watch face, my daughter cries
- when she sees the kitchen
- clock she cannot tell
- that kind of time. And compared
- to a water drop
- the screech of the street cats
- and bus breaks—your touch
- is predictable, my lord, and
- compared to the painted
- highway, most irregular,
- and compared to the pears,
- bitter, and compared to the baby carriages
- rolling across the baggage compartment
- of the bus, their mothers praying from little
- instruction books, hands held
- in the rubber loops above them,
- full of inadvisable faith.
Bad Guys
- Did God make the bad guys, too? My daughter asks me.
- We have just read about Pharoah and hardening hearts,
- we’ve just read about Hamman.
- I am trying to figure out what the pre-
- 1967 borders of this country are, and where
- the key to the bomb shelter is. I tell her
- “Everyone is born neither good nor bad.
- They decide what they will become.”
- She looks at me unconvinced. I am trying
- to show her the difference between sharing
- your toys with your friends, though you don’t
- want to, and letting anyone touch your private
- body when you don’t want them to.
- “Will you be a good guy or a bad guy
- when you grow up?” I ask. “I’m not
- a guy,” she says.
Marcela Sulak
Marcela Sulak’s third poetry collection and first memoir are forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press, where she’s published Decency and Immigrant. She’s co-edited Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. A 2019 NEA Translation Fellow, her fourth translation, Twenty Girls to Envy Me. Selected Poems of Orit Gidali was nominated for a 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She hosts the podcast “Israel in Translation,” edits The Ilanot Review, and is an Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University.
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Bright Lord and Bad Guys
Award-winning poetry translator shares two of her own poems
Bright Lord and Bad Guys
Award-winning poetry translator shares two of her own poems
Bright Lord (there are muscles everywhere)
- I am tapping the pulse of the faucet water
- and winding a string of light from the rain gutter
- I’m pressing the window glass which presumes
- tension between inner and outer
- my bright-toothed lord, it hurts
- the fatigue of clicking future tense
- into the present past, the stiffened tongue
- on my watch face, my daughter cries
- when she sees the kitchen
- clock she cannot tell
- that kind of time. And compared
- to a water drop
- the screech of the street cats
- and bus breaks—your touch
- is predictable, my lord, and
- compared to the painted
- highway, most irregular,
- and compared to the pears,
- bitter, and compared to the baby carriages
- rolling across the baggage compartment
- of the bus, their mothers praying from little
- instruction books, hands held
- in the rubber loops above them,
- full of inadvisable faith.
Bad Guys
- Did God make the bad guys, too? My daughter asks me.
- We have just read about Pharoah and hardening hearts,
- we’ve just read about Hamman.
- I am trying to figure out what the pre-
- 1967 borders of this country are, and where
- the key to the bomb shelter is. I tell her
- “Everyone is born neither good nor bad.
- They decide what they will become.”
- She looks at me unconvinced. I am trying
- to show her the difference between sharing
- your toys with your friends, though you don’t
- want to, and letting anyone touch your private
- body when you don’t want them to.
- “Will you be a good guy or a bad guy
- when you grow up?” I ask. “I’m not
- a guy,” she says.
Marcela Sulak
Marcela Sulak’s third poetry collection and first memoir are forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press, where she’s published Decency and Immigrant. She’s co-edited Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. A 2019 NEA Translation Fellow, her fourth translation, Twenty Girls to Envy Me. Selected Poems of Orit Gidali was nominated for a 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She hosts the podcast “Israel in Translation,” edits The Ilanot Review, and is an Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University.
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