Commentary On A Face In A Mirror Poem by Abraham Sutzkever

Commentary On A Face In A Mirror



And if you paint over the image of the Jewish street
With a brush dipped in your new, sunny palette —
Know: the fresh colors will peel
Someday, the old image will attack you with an ax
And wound you so the new will never heal.

1949

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Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever

Smorgon, Russian Empire
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