Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCCXV: "jagged crescent and sky"
written in response to the video clip Dreams of Palestinian Children, in which children, playfully jostling one another, crowd around the camera and call out their dreams.
Dust settles as the night folds the playground into shadow.
each classroom window
its jagged crescent
jagged Gazan sky
FYI: For more poems about Israel's Gaza Genocide, see Special Feature: Selected Poems for October 7th Reflections
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCCXVI: "one-minute silence and fireballs"
in Tel Aviv
traffic blocked on the highway
for one-minute silence ...
forty miles away, fireballs
burst open in the sky
