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Oedipus Goes into Exile

Gad Kaynar

Oedipus Goes into Exile

The frenzied doves are pecking at the eyes of the morning
Knocking over the dishes given as provisions for his trip
To Colonus.
The door closes behind him like the eye of a dying cyclops.
He muddles along in a warm puddle of sunny gonorrhea
And to find his road of no return he
Scatters the pebbles of the doves’ cadavers
Trampled by his sandals
Which he cannot see

translated by Natalie Feinstein

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Gad Kaynar

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger (70) is a retired Associate Professor from the Theater Department at Tel Aviv University. His poetry was published in major Israeli literary periodicals and supplements, and compiled in seven books, including a bi-lingual Hebrew-Spanish publication Lo que queda (What Remains). For ADHD he won “The General Israeli Writers’ Union” Award (2010). Kaynar is a stage, TV and film actor, and translator of 70 plays from English, German, Norwegian and Swedish. For his Ibsen translations he was designated in 2009 by the Norwegian King as “Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.”

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