By Yehuda Amichai
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.
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Our weather on Wednesday veered wildly between hail, pouring rain, and brilliant sunshine with a rainbow, with accompanying temperature swings. I chatted with two of my high school friends in the morning, did a bunch of chores around lunch, then watched the first half of Thor: Love and Thunder with Kristen.
We took a walk that started in light drizzle, turned into steady rain with wintry mix, and ended in sunlight before we had dinner, then we watched The Masked Singer (theme song night, I'm all about the Clock), Animal Control, and Resident Alien. Here are some of the flowers around Green Lake and the surrounding neighborhood:
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