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Dedication

The Diameter of the Bomb

By Yehuda Amichai

Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell

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.

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This book is dedicated to mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives—all the souls who have been unwittingly snared by human trafficking and cruelly victimized

by terrorism.

You will always be in my thoughts...

Annu Subramanian