LITERATURE/TRAVEL RACE/POLITICS

Turtledove’s Love: A poem for Gaza

From within an Avalanche of rubble….    Cactus spikes form, erecting defensive stubble.     Where the dimples of a smile ought to reign, Gazans strain like the foreign Canary Pine trees dry out in Palestine. Brave men transform into solid sticks yearning to lift concrete Stones off beloveds’ bones … they cannot. Cage-like crosses of […]

RACE/POLITICS

Weaponizing Antisemitism

  Oh, to be ‘anti-Jew’,      who of you  even operates like that? Trauma, historically induced paranoia, We feel for you, and dread repeats of the Holocaust…       We do, so much we now erect canopies of Protest for Palestine,            In tents…    Encampments          all around,      equipped with […]

RACE/POLITICS

A PLEA to the occupier

“Poetry and beauty are always making peace.  When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”   — Mahmoud Darwish   Palestine Resistance has exposed Colonialism. Refusing to leave, and willing to die, we long proper burials in our own earth that you brutally deny…   Why strip us of this right to sanctify […]