Friday, July 11, 2025

A Room of My Own: Toy Forest Tanka

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CC: "US-made bombs"

a toy forest
in his biscuit tin ...
the boy holds it tight
as US-made bombs drop
silencing the world below


FYI: The following entry could be read as its sequel

CLXXXI: "things hidden in ears"
inspired by Mosab Abu Toha's poem, "Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear"

doctor, you may find
these things hidden in my ears
a boy murmurs ...
buzzing of drones, roar of fighter jets
screams of Gazans, living and dead


And FYI: The Guardian, March 29, 2024:‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime? 

Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable.


Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCI: "US-made bombs"

this shifting maze
of green and red zones in Gaza...
life and death 
measured in footsteps
across one rubble-lined "street"


Added: Trump Empire, Inc, XLV

tariffs today
TACO tomorrow ... in heat
a stray chases its tail 

FYI: Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO), also known as the TACO Trade.

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