KONSTANTIN FISCHER, HANIA, CRETE

AND THOU SHALT LOVE

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God

with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

       But where does that leave space

bekhol levavkha uvkhol nafshekha uvkhol me'odekha

       where does that leave space

       for the other kind of desire

       that keeps finding its way out

       through your speech

when thou sittest in thine house,

       through your eyes

when thou walkest by the way,

       through your moves when you sit down

and when thou risest up.

       The kind of desire that keeps coming out as

a sign upon thine hand,

       the desire that seems to be written

between thine eyes,

       written

upon the doorposts of thy house and upon thy gates.

                                                                                                                                                                      Konstantin Fischer, 2014 / 2015