Gaza City’s Tuffa neighborhood, hit by IDF bombardment, July 2014. Photo from New Statesman To Lubna Tears quenched in the firebombed ghetto, Evaporating on the singed cheekbone of a skeletal coastline. Cries from the fledgling nest, The hawk swooping down with outstretched talon. Again and again, the angel of death1 passes over their home, The […]
To Tulsi According to the Buddha,A woman may turn out better than a man.1She may become the better parent or the better person,The mother of a great leaderOr the mother of a great nation. Like the earth, upholding the many,She who would become a motherThinks only of the unborn childThat she carries in her womb. […]
Reflections from March 2019 We arrived at the villa late on Monday the 4th of March 2019. Still unsure about how much a taxi should charge for the lift from the airport to Sanur. We had some ides but being Bali, everything was negotiable, and bartering came with buying food, clothes, and taxi service. Our […]
