Yehuda Amichai: Rain on the Battlefield

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Read about Yehuda Amichai here on Voices and his poem, "My Mother Once Told Me."
Rain on a Battlefield
It rains on the faces,
On my live friends' faces.
Those who cover their heads with a blanket.
And it rains on my dead friends' faces,
Those who are covered by nothing.
Translated by Assia Guttman


