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 morning air
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCCXVI: "waiting for water, or nothing"
this day like others
before the transient light
on the horizon ...
lines of Gazan children
waiting for water, or nothing
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCCXVIII: "bombed-out houses
and mounds of rubble"
a one-armed boy
stares out the tent window
at something ...
yet still bombed-out houses
and mounds of rubble
