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"Like a faithful dog… she comes to me"

‘…In Jerusalem, hope springs eternal. Hope is like a faithful dog. Sometimes she runs ahead of me to check the future, to sniff it out, Then I call her: Hope, Hope come here, and she Comes to me. …’

After a family visit to Jerusalem, Bono signed out from the King David Hotel by citing a poem from ‘Open Closed Open: Poems’ the final collection from Yehuda Amichai, regarded by many as Israel’s greatest modern poet.

Note on pic: my front door.

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