Notes on the Spring Holidays ["Hanukkah"]
In a world where each man must be of use
and each thing useful, the rebellious Jews
light not one light but eight—
not to see by but to look at.
Copyright Credit: Charles Reznikoff, "Hanukkah (from Notes on the Spring Holidays)" from The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975, edited by Seamus Cooney. Copyright © 2005 by The Estate of Charles Reznikoff. Used by permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Black Sparrow / David R Godine, Publisher, Inc., godine.com.
Source: The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975 (Black Sparrow / David R Godine, Publisher, Inc, 2005)