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Marriage Ceremony, Kibbutz Nir Am, 1948

Carly Sachs

August
sun

ignites
this

country
of cloth

burning
white

the same
light

trapped
beneath

their skin
there is

more than
one

vow
today

their chupah
held

up
by four

slender
rifles



Carly Sachs

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