all day rain ...
the puddles outside
and inside
these ripped plastic shelters
at the edge of Rafah
After the rain, at a camp located roughly a mile away from sandy terrain, strewn with rubbish and debris, men, women and children carry buckets of sand back and forth, back and forth, between their tents and the sandy area. A girl suddenly drops her bucket, then sits on the muddy groud, crying. For a moment, she stares up at the sky as if someone were listening.
Ribbons, 20:1, Winter 2024
