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The late Israeli poet, S. Shifra (2011) wrote, a few months before her own death, a poem entitled ‘Intimacy’, dealing with bereavement:
Intimacy
‘A brave woman lays a man in the earthWith her own nailsWithout funeral orationsWithout KaddishWithout God Full of MercyIntimatelyWoman, man and the earthWithout hundreds of staring eyes