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The world was flooded with death
and to save it all a man built a poem
of papers stolen from flame.
He crawled in and saved his last breath
then blew his own straight white page
as a sail across the unscrolled sea.
He sent out a letter to see
if Yiddish death could memorialize an age.
He died before the yud returned.
Crazy
to wish for revival when everything dies.
Like Jesus, I am standing graveside
but for resurrection I might be lazy
or insufficient. Would revivification
do the trick? Who died then
who Sutzkever carried - capsuled - in his pen?
How do you English a Yiddish nation?
