Page 97 mishkan T’Filah
The Diameter of the Bomb
The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters
and the diameter of its effective
range about 7 meters,
with four dead and 11 wounded.
And around these, in a larger
circle
of pain and time, two hospitals
are scattered
and one graveyard. But the
young woman
who was buried in the city she
came from,
at a distance of more than a
hundred kilometers,
enlarges the circle considerably,
and the solitary man mourning
her death
at the distant shores of a country
far across the sea
includes the entire world in the
circle.
And I won’t even mention the
crying of orphans
that reaches up to the throne of
God and
beyond, making a circle with no
end and no God.
(Yehuda Amichai)