Work in Translation

Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey is currently engaged upon a translation of "The Wolf," a Yiddish narrative poem written by H. Leivick in 1920. It's got a haunting first scene:

... and it was on the third morning,
when the sun arose in the East
there remained in the whole town not a trace.

And the rabbi was lying on a mountain of ash and stones
with a ravenous mouth and staring pupils,
and in his soul there was silence and darkness and nothing more.

(Thanks to Language Hat for the pointer...)