the glow of fireballs
in a dead baby's eyes
the stone cross tilted
Silhouetted against the half collapsed and blood-splattered wall, the parish priest of Holy Family Church looks into the cellphone camera, and says in a firm voice, "nuns and I will stay and take care of elderly and wounded people, pregnant women and children."
"Are you not afraid of dying during the next Israeli strike?"
"Jesus is weak and vulnerable among people who need help and comfort, and that is exactly the way, the only way, in which Jesus can be with us and help us."
