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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, 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 *** Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet and author, born in Würzburg, Germany in 1924. He emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936 and later became a naturalized Israeli citizen Amichai is recognized as one of Israel's finest poets, and his poems, written in Hebrew, have been translated into 40 languages He was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times and published eleven volumes of poetry in Hebrew, two novels, and a book of short stories His work is closely associated with the emergence of modern Israel, and he drew freely on the events of his life Amichai's poetry is imaginative and accessible, credited with introducing contemporary Hebrew poetry to American and English readers
