His meter was not running out
this time, he laughed, and to my left
a white-shirted fellow under forty told his
cropped silver haired woman companion
on the neighboring stool by the window about
“our children’s passion” at the Village Starbucks
on New Year’s day 2010.
By Janice Silverman Rebibo
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Janice Silverman Rebibo, a native of the Boston area, is a widely published Hebrew poet. Most recently, the Feb. 2010 issue of the Israeli journal, Iton 77, featured her poem, Etzb’a Elohim (God’s finger). The first of her four poetry collections, Zara (a stranger-woman, referring to the figure in Proverbs), was published in 1997. She later served as chief translator for Natan Yonatan, completing Within the Song to Live, his bilingual volume of selected work, following that popular poet’s death in 2004. Zara Betzion: shirim 1984-2006 (a stranger-woman in Zion) is Rebibo’s latest collection, a blend of two literary traditions. Her poems have been set to music by composer Gidi Koren. She has also collaborated with composer Matti Kovler on the libretto for Here Comes Messiah! a monodrama for soprano and chamber orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall in May, 2009 and premiering in Boston at Jordan Hall on May 11, 2010.
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