<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Wildpeace </div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Not the peace of a cease-fire </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">but rather </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">as in the heart when the excitement is over </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and you can talk only about a great weariness. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I know that I know how to kill, that makes me an adult. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">And my son plays with a toy gun that knows </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">how to open and close its eyes and say Mama. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">A peace </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">without the big noise of beating swords into ploughshares,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">without words, without </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the thud of the heavy rubber stamp: let it be </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">light, floating, like lazy white foam. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">A little rest for the wounds - who speaks of healing? </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">(And the howl of the orphans is passed from one generation </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to the next, as in a relay race: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the baton never falls.) </div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Let it come </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">like wildflowers, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">suddenly, because the field </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">must have it: wildpeace. </div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>- Yehuda Amichai </div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times;" class="">(Translation by Chana Bloch, in <i class="">This Same Sky</i>, ed. by Naomi Shihab Nye)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>