<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">The Diameter Of The Bomb</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">with four dead and eleven wounded.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">And around these, in a larger circle</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and one graveyard. But the young woman</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">who was buried in the city she came from,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">enlarges the circle considerably,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and the solitary man mourning her death</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">at the distant shores of a country far across the sea</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">includes the entire world in the circle.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">And I won't even mention the howl of orphans</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">that reaches up to the throne of God and</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">beyond, making</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">a circle with no end and no God.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Yehuda Amichai</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(translated by Chana Bloch & Stephen Mitchell)</div></body></html>