A Eulogy for my Zionism (and Virginity) (A Poem, with Translation) After Chris Abani Poem Yesterday I saw palm trees And the arteries in my eyes grew Hands to stroke away The sadness that […]
Category: Poems
Susiya Poem (Spit Live & Half-Improvised at Susiya Demo)
Filmed and initiated Noam Burg: —
“Susiya” by Moriel Rothman (another spoken word poem)
Last week, the entire village of Susiya, located in the South Hebron Hills, received demolition orders. I wrote this piece as a small sliver of protest. Susiya is screaming softly through small shards of sharp stones and little puddles of water […]
Jerusalem Poems That Already Are
Jerusalem Poems that Already Are: A political poem! that snarkily observes the rather un-Ironic Irony of an Oppressed People Oppressing People. A devotional poem! that undulates and ululates how Holy thy Stones and Widows […]
Rejoinder
I passed a man sending a message on his cell phone on a motorcycle I yelled do you want to die or to kill someone startled he looked at me and lost his balance and […]
“Jerusalem” by Moriel Rothman (a spoken word poem)
Written, memorized, spit, filmed, edited and sealed in a spasm of inspiration on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012: Video by Aaron Rotenberg
Why things are going to be ok
All of the time someone I know is laughing. Until you are no longer breathing all of the time you are still breathing. All of the time someone is riding a skateboard and/or playing flute. […]
Dream
we were talking about the usual polished stones of ego skimming along the surface of the fuzzy waters of maybe-death talking wall talking arrest talking headlines but there is something different something in the sky […]
More Possibilities
After Wislawa Szymborska I prefer windmills I prefer the faces children draw on sweating windows I prefer the way the droplets slide I prefer sex that is not based on biology I prefer imitating brilliance […]
Flags
1. All of them flup flupping it’s a windy, a delicious day 2. If I die in a suicide bombing please do not remember me as a Suicide Bombed. 3. Outside of the hall, six […]
The Leftern Wall 