The words are piling up behind my eyes… pushing past resistant eyelids… spilling… letter by letter… down my cheeks… where I angrily brush them aside. I don't want to write… I don't want to feel in text… I don't want to say the things my heart is dictating. So I rub… I destroy the … Continue reading Tears
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When Terrorists Die
On December 1, 2001, my husband stood on an unfamiliar street in the heart of an unfamiliar country. He had just turned eighteen and his life was shit. He just wanted a little something to numb the pain. This was the place to be, he was told. Here was the action. By day, a bustling … Continue reading When Terrorists Die
Eighteen
Lines form on my face and hands lines form from the ups and downs I'm in the middle without any plans I'm a boy and I'm a man I'm eighteen and I don't know what I want eighteen I just don't know what I want eighteen I gotta get away I gotta get out of … Continue reading Eighteen
This Is ISRAEL
I am listening to the radio. A woman is on. She is talking about life. About gratitude. About unity. She is saying how we are all family. She is reiterating the need to act as one nation. To help one another. To reach out to one another. To connect with kindness. She is interrupted. AZ'AKA (alarm) … Continue reading This Is ISRAEL
STOP…In The Name Of God
With each report…of sirens…rockets…terror… My heart constricts…shrinks…and trembles… And I try…to be strong…to be fierce…to believe… That this land…our land…my land… Is protected…by a power…an Almighty… Who is determined…to let us…prevail… And as these thoughts…float through my head… They meet another train…of wandering words… That say…that it sounds…eerily similar…to the rhetoric…they use. And I am … Continue reading STOP…In The Name Of God
Colloquially Speaking 