the poet Dot Devota
@meadowasylum
Author of PMS: A Journal In Verse; The Division of Labor; And The Girls Worried Terribly; The Eternal Wall; Dept. of Posthumous Letters. My personal views.
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MOHAMMED MOUSSA The only kid who survived the massacre says: I am the only one who jumped higher than everyone. Gaza Poets Society
“...writing is the only free medicine in this city.” - Maha Jarabaa Gaza Poets Society
"The propaganda of so-called liberal democracies narrows the horizons of thought, severely limiting our ability to make sense of what is actually happening." Ammiel Alcalay middleeasteye.net/opinion/palest…
A girl holds a book and stares at the ground, as if words escape her, or as if the ground reads more. - from Mariam al khateeb's "Gaza's sea at 9 am" Gaza Poets Society gazapoetssociety.substack.com/p/gazas-sea-at…
Mothers are like air: carrying bags as if they carry the city, rebuking their children as if raising survivors, haggling over the price of tomatoes in a voice that blends tenderness and war, making the simplest of gestures a hidden metaphor for life. gazapoetssociety.substack.com/p/gazas-sea-at…