A correspondent in the north of Gaza recorded
News coverage in a steady and steadfast voice from and for his people.Â
Attentive, anchored in principle, and memorizing both…
hush your hoarse and cracked voice and write / with a splotchy gel pen, a permanent marker rolling / in the junk drawer, a stolen ballpoint from a doctor’s office…
that you & I will be wrapped in a shroud the color of snow / and musk made of honeysuckles or jasmines…
Hither fly your arrows of hatred. Thither rain your spears of ignorance. But no sigh of pain escapes my lips…
The whole day had simply been concocting the ingredients for a famous dish, fiasco. I’d woken up for Fajr dreading…
