CURSIVE-CURSES AND CARVEL CONES/ A Childhood Memory

Vintage photo of my Tateh and Cede with my Aunt Lorraine in Ramallah.

My childhood was a blur of stone pits and fig trees, anchored by a man who taught me how to grow life from the dirt, even while his bloodshot eyes were heavy with the reality of the news from Palestine.

CEDE #poetry by jay

like a bull / suntanned / cursing the news
back-breaking
bloodshot
fingering toward the moon
[Read the full poem here]

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