Kriszta Satori on Nostr: H/t Lindsey Hilsum, war correspondent extraordinaire - a poem by Yehuda Amichai: The ...
H/t Lindsey Hilsum, war correspondent extraordinaire - a poem by Yehuda Amichai:
The Diameter Of The Bomb
"The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven 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,
The Diameter Of The Bomb
"The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven 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,