Amid Breathtaking Bougainvilleas

Mikhail Grobman

2000

Amid breathtaking bougainvilleas
I while away my time
One floor up Emilia’s
Flimsy lingerie is hanging on a line
Tiny hummingbirds hover
Around a wistful rose
A mouse caught in a saucer
Watch where you poke your nose!
Dogs bark, wolves howl
Through the subtropics runs the fox
Poetry on the bottom shelf
And sausage in Murka’s box
In Tel Aviv…
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Creator Bio

Mikhail Grobman

b. 1939
Mikhail Grobman is an artist and poet. He was born in Moscow and came to Israel in 1971. In Moscow during the early 1960s, he was among the originators of the second Russian avant-garde, and in 1975, he founded the Leviathan group of artists in Jerusalem, publishing a Russian-language newspaper of that name and seeking to combine contemporary art with Judaism and mysticism.

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