Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXVI: "armless boy's stare"
inspired by 2025 World Press Photo of an armless Gazan boy, 9-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour with his arms missing just below each shoulder
calm between fireballs
in the slanted moonlight
an armless boy's stare
FYI: "Israel's oldest daily now sanctioned by the Israeli government, Haaretz," April 20: Khan Yunis, Gaza's City of Slaughter
Over the past 120 years, the Kishinev pogrom, on Easter Sunday of 1903, has become a myth that shaped Jewish consciousness forever. There is no child in Israel who has not heard about it. But The Kishinev riots are part of an ordinary day for people in Gaza
