Marc’s early years were in Switzerland and Belgium- his parents being originally from Poland. The family emigrated to Australia when Marc was 6. In Australia he taught literature and published poems and articles in major journals. He lived on a bush property engaging both with life on the land and writing. In 1980 he came to live in Israel with his wife. He taught for many years in a branch of Bar Ilan University. Marc and Dorothy have two sons. They live in the ecological village of Clil in the Western Galilee. He has published one book, The Myth Father (2009) . A Hebrew translation is soon to be published
olive trees all gnarled within,
conceal their flowering,
spring has passed
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when the girl says not that way
the scene just before Anton Chigurh kills her
he has killed so many he has killed them all
what gets you is her wide eyes her credulity
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תהום לפניך
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
and the earth was without form and void
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having wound his way from outside
through the labyrinth of wooden beams and rafters
a sparrow is trapped inside the house
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walking on Igael's track towards his unbuilt
house are two carob trees- in the autumn
walk in the morning or evening, you will smell
the fragrance of fermenting carob pods,
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