Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.
VOA: special.2009.12.31
My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thoughtofhim four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).