late night shift done
a stray’s barks lengthen
the way home
Added:
laid off again ...
nothing in the day but
eagle shadow
Added:
thunder and lightning
what's left between us
half-spoken
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXCIII: "trapped echo"
the sound of drones
in an armless boy's head
like a trapped echo
his mother's last scream
drowns in the smoky dark
FYI: "Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
Opinion, April 24, 2026: Israelis' Thunderous Silence Enables Daily Atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank
In the Gaza Strip, the dead and wounded aren't "casualties," they are "collateral damage" – a dry technical term backed by artificial intelligence and legal permits. They aren't casualties, they are damage. Language itself has been recruited to cloud what happened, as if by swapping the terms, we could also swap our reality...
But the most chilling sound of all is silence. Israelis' thunderous silence was what enabled and continues to enable the atrocities we committed in Gaza and the ones we commit every day in the West Bank.
This tanka could be read as a sequel to the following:
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXCII: "P/Crime Minister"
written on Israel's Independence Day
behind the shroud
of "our hero warriors"
the P/Crime Minister
spills the Castro-length
blah, blah, blah on victory
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