Rajzel Zychlinsky (1910–2001) was born in Gombin, Poland, and her first book of poems was published to great acclaim by the Yiddish PEN Club in Warsaw in 1936. Zychlinsky survived World War II in Tatarstan and afterward moved to Paris, New York, and finally California. Her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
Photo by Benjamin Jakabek Photography
alone
i will live alone in a room
with two birds,
a cat
and three flowers.
in the mornings we will wake
with blue eyes.
in the mornings we wi…
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