Penultimate Day

The penultimate day of 2011 Pale winter sky, green landscape and the far mountain is dark blue…the air is so clear I can see white cottages on the slopes where they have goats and make cheese. There is stillness, but I hear cars rushing by on the main road and if I stand on my toes I can see the Gaza Strip, not in details as it is shrouded in the mist of conflicts. The distance between here and there is too short today bullets hit ground and I must hide behind a stone wall. I see cartridges from shot guns, hunters have been here and meaty birds fly fast and fearfully from tree to tree. The dale to the east that looks like a voluptuous woman on her back, I drove up there once but couldn’t find her. This year is coming to an end, a year of wars, it is sad to think in our world hostilities are a norm.