Wednesday, January 14, 2026

A Room of My Own: Tel Aviv’s Sunset Tanka

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCLXVII:  "Israelis leaving in record numbers"

I turn, turning back 
to see Tel Aviv’s sunset
for the last time ... 
this new neighbor’s words fade
in Toronto's snowfall


FYI: +972 Magazine, January 7 2026: Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers
Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

And this tanka is a sequel to the following:

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXI: "beach party and booms"
written in response to The New Yorker, July 28, 2025Israel’s Zones of Denial

Tel Aviv's beach party
the faint boom, boom, boom
from Gaza

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