A Room of My Own: The Day After, Just the Beginning

This Brave New World, XCV

written in response to the Israel–Hamas war

the spokesman's mouth

opens and closes to the clicking

of cameras ....

this numbing, numbing

sameness of war images

pondering

this binary, love or hate

your enemy ...

I stare up into the sky

streaked with shades of grey

the closeup

of a bloody-eyed solider

in my dream ...

a stray barking at its echo

as the night chill deepens

FYI: This poem was inspired by Canadian Dimension, Oct 8: Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them: Regimes implanted and maintained by violence engender violence, written by Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

..Marek Edelman, was the deputy commander of the Warsaw Ghettouprising and the only leader to survive the war....Edelman, after the war, condemned Zionism as a racist ideology used to justify the theft of Palestinian land.

“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors,” Edelman said.

Added: This Brave New World, XCVI

October 7th

and the days after ... only

the sound of blood

Added:

a refugee's journey

yellow leaves zigzagging 

in twilight chill