Gaza Lovesong

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I go to Erez to remind myself that Gaza is now an angry ball of flames behind the wall. 

I keep my eyes shut, fingers move on their own to

read the pocked sky in Braille.

The clouds are hot, so hot, they burn

Up

Up

Up

I don’t know how many times I died on the way to this place, never arrived. 

(this is)

You call to say: the wounded die twice when ambulance hit, 

You call to say: we cross the borders with our blood, 

(this is, this is how)

The sky is full of Ether, look

Up

Up

Up

(and this is, this is how, we set the siege on fire)

Zaanoun Funambulist
Photo by Mohammed Zaanoun (2018).