A Dog After Love




After you left me

I let a dog smell at

My chest and my belly. It will fill its nose

And set out to find you.



I hope it will tear the

Testicles of your lover and bite off his penis

Or at least

Will bring me your stockings between his teeth.








I Have Become Very Hairy





I have become very hairy all over my body.

I'm afraid they'll start hunting me because of my fur.



My multicolored shirt has no meaning of love —

it looks like an air photo of a railway station.



At night my body is open and awake under the blanket,

like eyes under the blindfold of someone to be shot.



Restless I shall wander about;

hungry for life I'll die.



Yet I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed,

and tranquil, like a full cemetery.






© 1977 by Yehuda Amichai.

From Amen: Poems by Yehuda Amichai, published
by Milkweed Editions. All rights reserved.

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