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Women 2000            by Rose Michaelis

Reciprocation    by Eva Avi-Yonah

To Beethoven             by Thilde Fox, Haifa

WOMEN  2000

How long, how long, subservient will you be?
Is it enough to taste the apple from the tree?
To exchange sex for a fee?
                       for a teaspoon of love?

  To suffer the slings of rape, beatings,
        and murderous spree,
To serve, sacrifice and sexy be.
Are we not as clever as he?   
Amass a fortune!  Sever the chain!
Never look back!
utter a cry!
Alas! you’re free.

Rose Michaelis, Tel Aviv

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 Reciprocation  by Eva Avi-Yonah

Frozen
wasp, I have warmed you to new life 
and you have stung me.

Stray
cat, I have given you food and shelter 
and you have scratched me.

Troubled
sister, I have helped you cope
and you have slandered me.

Velvet
rose, I cut you from your life-stem 
and you have offered me your sweetest fragrance.

Eva Avi-Yonah, Jerusalem selection, November.

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 TO BEETHOVEN

Thilde Fox, Haifa  

Where do the notes live before you catch them?  

Do they hide behind the skies  
till you pluck them down and toss them out  
like catherine wheels bursting into sound?  

Do you marshal them in sober rows  
obedient to your pen,  
till they rise like shooting stars  
with trails of music singing for ever through the heavens  
till God gathers them in and sends them back for His delight?

When you put away your pages  
do they storm your pillow  
and tease your sleep  
till you wake enchanted  
and sing again?