Lyor Shternberg (b. 1967) is a poet, translator, and a teacher of literature. His seventh volume of poetry, The Bread, the Salt (collecting twenty years of writing), was published recently.
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A Poem for Nitzan
I smuggled you across the border, that no hand
of those who find joy in their labor might touch you
no hand of those dealing
in blood,
t…