A Thought

When a thought plummets at my feet
Bruised
I bandage its wings
Which I clipped
Until it revisits me
In faltering
Flight.
I then shoot it again.

Translated from Hebrew by Natalie Feinstein

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger is a retired Associate Professor from the Theater Department at Tel Aviv University. His poems have been published in major literary periodicals and supplements. He is a stage, TV and film actor, and translator of 70 theater plays. In 2009 by the Norwegian King as “Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.