Tel Aviv Shoreline

by P. David Hornik (January 2015)

The shadows on the shore

recover an innocence.

Two are tossing a ball.

Soon they’ll disappear into the dark

and become something else—

furtive lovers,

forms at the outskirts of frolic,

stalkers of themselves.

But at sunset

they seem for a moment almost

admissible into innocence

while the sun shatters

into clouds.

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P. David Hornik is a freelance writer and translator in Beersheva, Israel. In recent years his work appears especially on the PJ Media and Frontpage Magazine sites, and his book Choosing Life in Israel was published in 2013. At present he is working on an autobiography.

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