For flowers, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck. It’s very hard for a Plath devotee to post a poem translated by poor Assia Gutmann, the woman claimed in the same historical vortex.
from My Mother Once Told Me / by Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), translated by Assia Gutmann
My mother once told me
Not to sleep with flowers in the room.
Since then I have not slept with flowers.
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