A Gorgeous Shiksa

Preface

I’m not Wordsworth nor Frost, so I wouldn’t go as far as defining the value of poetry or trying to understand the creative process needed for a poem to come out right, surely not at the very beginning of my very first published book of poems.

I do think that sometimes all you need is just a spark of inspiration to set your mind right, to get your feelings in motion strong enough, so you might just end up with, well, art.

I got my inspiration on a tour bus to Mitzpe Ramon on the night between the 14 and 15 of June 2018, listening (well, eavesdropping, really) to conversations around me and turning sentences I picked up without any context into morally dubious poems.

Enjoy,

Nir I. Kligsberg

A Piece of the Moon

A piece of the moon

 held in my hand,

By tomorrow afternoon

 it'll be gone again.

A Gorgeous Shiksa

A gorgeous shiksa

 lookin' so fine,

Out of all the shenkes in the shtetl

 she walks into mine.

San Francisco (with Giora Glotser)

If you're going

 to San Francisco,

Be sure to wear

 a coat.