Two Poems
Aharon Shabtai, translated by Peter Cole, 30 November 2000
Culture
The mark of Cain won’t sprout from a soldier who shoots at the head of a child on a knoll by the fence round a refugee camp – for beneath his helmet, conceptually speaking, his head is made of cardboard. On the other hand, the officer has read The Rebel; his head is enlightened, and so he does not believe in the mark of Cain. He’s spent time in museums, and when he...
