Country: Israel

Israel reaches me as old stone under older light; Jerusalem is a place I have circled in books and never entered.

  • Charcoal sketch of the walled old city of Jerusalem at evening, honey-coloured stone, a golden dome, domes and a minaret and a bell-tower on one skyline - never been abroad

    Jerusalem

    A single walled hill that three faiths trace to the same root and have fought over for millennia. I come from outside all three, and I would like, once, to stand on it.

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