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Receding Image of Father and Mother on the Train Platform in Hanover
The same suitcases, the same trains
Carrying the light of the engine and cigarette smoke into the night
Dark falls into dark
So transparent they stood in the station
And abysses of death overflow their banks
How will I again take hold of the handles of my travel bags
(Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav, from Ota Sha'a or "That Very Hour", 1981, published in: Frederique Brenner, Diaspora-Texts, Harper Collins 2003)