How Can I?

how can i write of love and loneliness,  the stars, moon  and expansive skies, while snipers shoot  small children? how? how can? how can i? how can i write? how can i write when babies starve? forgive me  for scrolling past for my silence my ignorance my small griefs. how can i write  about my … Continue reading How Can I?

Bread Dipped in Blood

All Eyes on Gaza, all eyes on Gaza On Khan Younis and Jabalia For Ahmed— music teacher, he tunes his voice to the tambura of daily drones, For Madleen— fisherwoman whose own seas  are under siege.  For Dr Alaa, whose 8 of 9 children, and her husband— killed.  Vasan, in Bangkok painted her family— pictures … Continue reading Bread Dipped in Blood