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Amichai Chasson

Amichai Chasson is the artistic director and chief curator at Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem. His most recent book of poetry, Shirim Al Saf (Liminal Poems) was published by the Bialik Institute in 2022.

Pogrom: A Poem

Amichai Chasson

Will the hunters come again to our abode tonight, seeking our souls with gun threats? Will they come quiet and furtive, until the crack of a shot cuts through the crickets? Perhaps they will arrive with a shofar blast like the lords of the land subduing the world, bringing their sons to teach them the wiles of war, carrying our…