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@lifeinpoetry domain back up

sleepwalking.nu is back up! The automatic renewal didn’t work, and it expired this morning, but I renewed it a few hours later.

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Free Palestine Reading List

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lifeinpoetry:

is mine an evil heart?

— Joey de Jesus, from “Ancha (Redux),” published in Roadmap

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is mine an evil heart?

— Joey de Jesus, from “Ancha (Redux),” published in Roadmap

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He is a collection of stories

he’ll never tell. In the moonlight, he looks like a vanishing horse.

In the daylight: a dog.

He has nothing to say about the question he wants to ask.

The same one I’ll ask of the future.

About being the one to live

— A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, from “Tessellate,” published in Rusted Radishes

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Anonymous asked:

Sorry you’re not feeling well !!! Hope you get better soon.


Thank you, lovely. <3 Dealt with the stomach pain for nearly two decades so its cessation was life changing. Hoping to experience that again if my hunch is correct.

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Free Palestine Reading List

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Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Mother. Please, forgive
me. I want to call in dead. Last week,
there was a child in a yellow dress reading a poem.
For minutes on end, I could not be indifferent
to anything. Not the grass, dying yellow.
Not the bombs, twisting limbs.
Not the cages. Not the—

— Noor Hindi, from “Self-Interrogation,” DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

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Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks
seconds before becoming daisies.
I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It’s so beautiful, the moon.
They’re so beautiful, the flowers.

— Noor Hindi, from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

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They didn’t find a place to bury you.
They carried you on their shoulders,
The houses never saw you.
They’ve already packed their bags.

— Mosab Abu Toha, Oct 17, 2023, from “Ceasefire Cento,” published by Vox Populi

Reported today by LitHub: Reports suggest Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been kidnapped by Israeli forces.

LitHub released an update on the 21st saying that Mosab was released but reported having been beaten and interrogated. He received medical care and is with his family.

Reports suggest that Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been released.
It looks like Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, who was kidnapped on the weekend by Israeli forces as he was trying to cross into Egypt with
Literary Hub
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