Bethlehem

PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNAL: 

Photographing Bethlehem

Built 

as best I can find out

for World War I

still soldier-like 

armored in rust and

industrial dusk 

tired husk of vanished empire

behind Roman arches 

that supplied legions 

back to the Civil War and 

the ra-ta-tat-tat of a

chain link fence and 

and two World Wars and

a lazy stream of visitors parked 

thinking about dinner 

before the sun sets

over Bethlehem.