Racket
Life racket, sickness racket
happy racket sad racket
spring racket
winter racket
what a racket in me
a racket of the particular and the vague
something wasteful and agreeable
the racket of travel and the racket of love
the racket of weakness or the racket of strength
the racket of brightness and the racket of darkness
meetings racket
the racket of longing for distances and fears
and the racket of kids blurs them all;
the racket of kisses covers me
the racket of festivities the racket of movement
and listening to the racket of speech
--Maya Bejerano (translated from Hebrew by Tsipi Keller)