"It's on time if it gets there"

The subject line is from William Stafford's Putting the Sonnet to Work (written about eight months before he died). It is unsettling...

Decal seen on the front of a lawn mower in Jerusalem, on the Givat Ram campus of Hebrew University, October 2009:

From Israel 2009 - set 3

From Israel 2009 - set 3

From another Stafford poem, written about three months before he died:

It's heavy to drag, this big sack of what
you should have done. And finally
you can't lift it any more.
Someone says, "Come on," and you
just look at them. Trees are waiting,
mountains. You never intended
that it should come to this.

But Now has arrived and is looking
straight at you, the way a lion does
when thinking it over . . .

There are many lions in Jerusalem:

From Israel 2009 - set 3

From Israel 2009 - set 2

From Israel 2009 - set 2