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Wikileaks: IDF Intelligence Chief Boasts Assassinating Hamas Leaders Will ‘Change Paradigm’ Two Weeks Before Cast Lead
August 31, 2011Former U.S Rep. Robert Wexler may be a liberal pro-Israel sycophant, but thank God he visited IDF intelligence chief two weeks before Operation Cast Lead began along with a U.S. embassy staffer. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have this rich portrait of Israeli thinking just prior to the Israeli assault on Gaza. The cable was written on [...]
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The Photographer Says (Big Tent Poetry, Jan. 24 prompt)
January 26, 2011The author, age 2 or so. Photographer THE PHOTOGRAPHER SAYS Hold still, little sister turn your head to the side like a bird who hears bells while you contemplate jump-rope let me catch the dapple of sun on your one lace-topped sock in sturdy white Oxfords you have the run of the [...]
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The rabbis’ racist letter: many words, little action
December 16, 2010While public figures in Israel condemned the latest rabbinical Fatwa against renting homes to Arabs, little to no action was taken against its authors. Also, some secular Jewish communities are introducing their own version of the racist letter Almost two weeks passed since dozens of Israeli rabbis ‘
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Another mother poem: Thanksgiving
November 24, 2010Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING Last year I carried you inside to the buffet, to the table to the big blue birth ball where I bounced beside the fire. Darkness falls early here at this season: the eve of the day I’d spend pacing the hospital, contracting in the shower. This year you scramble around [...]
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Another mother poem: grandparents house
November 19, 2010GRANDPARENTS’ HOUSE Your hands slap the marble floor. Your voice fills the empty spaces in this house I never grew up in. You tug your sun hat off your head and squint at the vast Texas sky. Your hands slap the marble floor. Clutching bits of flour tortilla you beam, face smeary and bright. [...]
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Another mother poem: childproofing
October 27, 2010Childproofing CHILDPROOFING Wooden slats. U-bolts. Swinging hinges. Sheets of transparent plastic. Plastic plugs pushing their way inside every socket. Fiddly gadgets to catch doors and drawers before they reveal their vulnerable insides. And you trundling across the floor, chasing the ball that plays the same three measures of classical music again and again, [...]
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The Viva Palestina and “The Siege”
October 24, 2010On October 21, 243 truckloads of food, fuel + construction materials legally entered the Gaza Strip via Karni & Kerem Shalom Crossings under the auspices of the IDF. In yet another attempt to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip, after five weeks on the road through France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Syria, the Viva [...]
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Another mother poem: Fever
September 3, 2010FEVER You’re on fire beneath my lips, hot as the coal that Moshe grabbed when the angel forced his hand. As we rock in the dark I want to pray for healing but I’m muddled with sleep. I sing to you in two holy tongues. You whimper. My eyes are closed but I have [...]
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Another mother poem (for Big Tent Poetry) – Hand-Me-Downs
August 26, 2010HAND-ME-DOWNS My knife zips through tape and the box unfolds its wings. I lift little pockets of emptiness, their sleeves carefully tucked. Each of these an embrace in jersey knit, in waffle weave or flannel, snug turtlenecks and button-downs. This red one – short-sleeved, blazoned with the alphabet — urges me to measure each day: [...]
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Another mother poem: phantom baby
August 12, 2010PHANTOM BABY The biggest change: even when we’re apart I’m not self-contained always aware that you washed up helpless on my shore strangers squint as I narrate my day in a sing-song to no one the sticky smudges you left on my glasses frame everything I see high-pitched [...]
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A mother poem for Shabbat Nachamu: Comforter
July 23, 2010COMFORTER you wake in your crib’s embrace from the dream of a distant heartbeat a voice says cry out! and you cry out bewailing the tragedy of separation until I gather you to my breast glowing numbers shift silently and your desperation eases someday you’ll learn to fumble soft stars into their places to nuzzle [...]
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The U.S Post Office: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Unless its Saturday.
July 21, 2010The USPS announced today that it wants to close doors on Saturday to save an estimated $3.1 billion. Two weeks ago, the USPS announced another 2-cent raise in the cost of a stamp. Last week’
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The Jihad against Uganda
July 14, 2010(Note: Dr Phares is scheduled to address the Command of US AFRICOM on the Jihadist strategic threat this month.) The terror group Shabab al Jihad of Somalia is all business when it threatens its victims with attacks. For weeks and months, the mouthpieces of the jihadist organization battling the Somali government in Mogadishu, have been threatening to [...]
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Another mother psalm: bringing the baby to morning prayer
July 8, 2010MOTHER PSALM 7 Don’t chew on your mama’s tefillin I say, dislodging the leather from your damp and eager grasp. We play peekaboo beneath my tallit, hiding your face and revealing it the way God is sometimes present sometimes not. You like the drums, the fiddle and clarinet. You bang your rattle on the floor. [...]