The space you inhabit for Jacob Rosenberg i.m. 1922–2008 You said that poetry remembers where history forgets itself. You told me, words have shadows that are left behind after they pass the lips. You gave me “The Little Boat”: its simplicity; its tenderness; the shared song of its longing drift and faraway port. So very vivid your eyes with a child’s sparkle, so very tough your judgement with a parent’s certainty, a good age when we met, your generous heart held the map of a painful knowledge. And your forgiveness, escapee from a hatred incomparable, systematic, premeditated;…
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