Jerusalem Bride - Poem

Judaism, Wntr, 1999 by Leora B. Smith

Cloud saturated sunset

Inscribed by time.

Rain washed.

Throwing off her veil

This city reflected

by time.

Rose blossom blushed.

Young stones sang out

"Jerusalem."

LEORA B. SMITH, whose poems appeared in the Summer 1997 issue, received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in cellular physiology (1992). She has studied with Dan Pagis and Yehuda Amichai, and her poetry has been included in an anthology, Without a Single Answer: Poems on Contemporary Israel, edited by Elaine Starkman and Leah Schweitzer (1990). She has also published several papers in professional biological journals, and teaches hands-on science to teachers in Chicago. where she lives with her husband and two children.