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Dusk in Jerusalem

Yehuda Amichai
in Memoriam (1924-2000)

It is dusk on earth
our warm limbs
hide our sorrow
from eyesore white stones
here in Jerusalem sunset
without a second glance
a strip of cloth
from a prayer shawl flaps
in the south wind.