1. In this new year, may justice rain down like fish. Could also be a metaphor for activism… 2. In this new year, may we find reason to laugh a little more. Palestinian farmers and […]
Category: Poems
Off in Ohio
I am “off” for some days. That is to say: Last night, I woke up from dreams of explosions, and throughout the last days, my thoughts have flicked constantly, in the screen behind my eyes, to […]
Unanthem
Guest writer: Casey Tova Markenson Blue fire rains explosive in my sleep. Faces erased: Omar al-Fyumi. Twenty three. Black shirts pray in protest streets. If I am not for me, who will I be. Hymns […]
The Moon and a Homeless Man As Seen from my Mid-Twenties
The moon is a little dustball caught in the charcoal cough of the night what functioning heart can truly withstand the minor key I am fundamental in my alone- ness but not alone in my fun- damentalism I […]
The Shooter from Bitunya Speaks*
In the third grade Liam stood on the top of the playtoy and Told the class my arms were skinny and Looked like like a girl’s, like Talia’s, and The next week I pushed his chest […]
5 Poems and Pictures from Jerusalem Day 2014
1. I have nothing new to say about violence. It feels sad and electric to see, like usual. By evening, satisfied some of the policemen eat sandwiches. 2. Speaking of sad: the nine year olds wearing Kahana […]
“Flags” – A spoken word poem & video-collage
“Flags.” My newest spoken word poem & video collage-sketch as the air cracks as the music blasts as the flags flup as we enter Yom Ha- Here:
Lintels – A Poem for and from Passover
Lintels* This is the bread of affliction Raw: It catches in our throats and Alarm rings like a test but it is not a test Like a fork, a gold-wired ambulance Stopped at the border […]
Justice, Justice. Slide Show, Slide Show. Now, Now. Polite, Polite.
In the court with the jesters there are gestures for the guards subdue the angry man they say they say why is he so angry All tongues cluck We are discussing archeology Pretty slides Campy, […]
“Jerusalem” on IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel
A benefit of blobbing is that one can express here non-nonchalance, ie., chalance. — Chalance: I am so excited to announce that my poem, Jerusalem, was published today on theIndieFeed: Performance Poetry podcast and website! IndieFeed […]
The Leftern Wall 