This poem reflects on the new year under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the continued conflict in Gaza. It describes the cold morning after a night with a dead moon, witnessing the frozen morning glory on the vine. It references W.B. Yeats' slouching beast that has come to stop the sun with the gore of murder. It laments that irrelevant visitors from the east caused only small wonder because the killing was allowed to continue due to a refusal to consider the sacredness of life or the weakness of others, including children.
This poem reflects on the new year under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the continued conflict in Gaza. It describes the cold morning after a night with a dead moon, witnessing the frozen morning glory on the vine. It references W.B. Yeats' slouching beast that has come to stop the sun with the gore of murder. It laments that irrelevant visitors from the east caused only small wonder because the killing was allowed to continue due to a refusal to consider the sacredness of life or the weakness of others, including children.
This poem reflects on the new year under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the continued conflict in Gaza. It describes the cold morning after a night with a dead moon, witnessing the frozen morning glory on the vine. It references W.B. Yeats' slouching beast that has come to stop the sun with the gore of murder. It laments that irrelevant visitors from the east caused only small wonder because the killing was allowed to continue due to a refusal to consider the sacredness of life or the weakness of others, including children.
An elegy for Gaza as symbol for the new year under Netanyahu
dawns the year, cold,
fog swirls distances away, today the same as last nights moon, dead the stubborn morning glory hanging frozen on the vine, witness to the birth of Yeat's slouching beast swollen with the gore of murder resting by the wall to stop the sun, strong to smother message of another Birth now done with irrelevant visitors from the east who came and caused but smallest wonder because we willed the killing to continue and continue and continue, how could we not? we must not, no, no, cannot, will not, consider not the sacredness of life, the other, the weak, the children, no, we revel in our treasure spun of stolen land, a god created in our image, draping our souls with hate and fear enough to warm our hubris, all we stand tall, all, we are the chosen unto the planets, we need no other, want no other, will have no other, suffer no other, no, no, for we are, we are, WE ARE.