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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Awaken

That patterned scarf…

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Posted on February 19, 2024

Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child: X

T’ward th’lapwing th’baboon trots. Back to his shoulder she descends, as th’roaming dead assault the fens…

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Posted on February 19, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Lamentation For Rafah

Lament for me upon the edge of Egypt.

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Posted on February 18, 2024

There Are, Now, More Than Two Of Us

My left-hand cradleholds your skull.

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Posted on February 12, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Gazan Haiku

Petals bright.

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Posted on February 11, 2024

Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child: IX

In his own hand (his left) he takes up a stalk. “Your red heart I’ll pierce, after tearing through your chest!”

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Posted on February 9, 2024

Sleeping Child Of Many Day-Dreams

You are here.

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Posted on January 30, 2024

Sierran Sonnet

Across America on wiccan wings, riding ‘pon the heatwaves of fiddle-fire!

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Posted on January 24, 2024January 24, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Never Again; Again

This design lies deep within our marrow; plays its pull upon our sinews still.

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Posted on December 31, 2023

Song Of Palestine – For Palestine

For all the world’s indigenous, we will fight for Palestine!

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Posted on December 26, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Monsters Of War

Conscious evil, delib’rately committed.

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Posted on December 25, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Gazan Nativity

He had felt the convulsions of his parent’s movements through their days of flight ‘n persecution, wandering Dawlat Filastin to find a birthplace home.

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Posted on December 23, 2023December 23, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Silent Night; Martyr’s Night

Th’stars do quake at the sight…

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Posted on December 23, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Condemnation

Do you know against whom I would raise it?

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Posted on December 21, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Azrael

She sits, head in hands.

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