Salamanders on the North Border Road

by Elisha Porat

Originally published on November 1, 2001

Two salamanders are crossing the North Border Road. Sluggish and indifferent, they Creep under the borderline barbed wire. I stop The patrol. Above the ravines and fields, Silence suddenly drops for a moment: we watch Their orange backs, a poison color, their tails Striped black, and their evil aura darkens The morning light. I feel [...]

Without A Eulogy

by Elisha Porat

Originally published on June 1, 2001

What he wanted was to hide among the simple or among the small whose greatness he had always craved. To be at rest with friends cloaked in the pride of the meek without words, and without even a eulogy. And after that, only this: To lie below tender shoots sheltered in the shade of thorns [...]