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Charades
I would write to you of cranes dancing in the snows of Hokkaido, but fathers are bleeding in the flour of Al-Kuwaiti roundabout. A different dance of…
Mar 19
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February 2024
We Are Not Weapons, We Are Instruments of Justice
It is happening now, as it always happens when a queer person stands in solidarity with anyone: the weaponization of our identity and the…
Feb 26
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January 2024
Out of America
Starting Over
Jan 30
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About a Man
I want to tell you about a man standing in the rubble that had, not an hour ago, been a building—the building where he lived with his wife and two…
Jan 16
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I Return to the Family
I return to the family, soon to be refugees, travelling in the dark of the year to pay taxes, to be counted in the census, the advanced state of…
Jan 2
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December 2023
An Open Letter
Be My Voice: CEASE FIRE NOW
Dec 1, 2023
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November 2023
The Beginning of Prayer
Prayer is where we speak beyond words, connected in a state of interdependence we rarely notice. This is where we encounter the sacred, not exclusively…
Nov 28, 2023
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What Means This War?
I wrote about the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict all through my thirties, and always with the outcome of being called an antisemite for questioning…
Nov 14, 2023
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October 2023
Fire from Heaven
On Poetry: Four
Oct 24, 2023
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Fire from Heaven
On Poetry: Three
Oct 17, 2023
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A Note to the Readers
You may have noticed some strange formatting in the recent posts, which will ultimately be a four part essay on Poetry. Substack, while lovely, is a bit…
Oct 11, 2023
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Fire from Heaven
On Poetry: Two
Oct 10, 2023
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