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Don’t tell your children that while we were being exterminated, you were busy celebrating your achievements.
Ahmed Dader
  • Gaza Strip
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Day after day, the children would wait for me to open the book and transport them to another world.
A young man is distraught over the beloved horse he had to leave behind when he was displaced to southern Gaza.
Behind this door, a mother waits for her lost son’s return / as if she never understood the meaning of death.
The whispering walnut calls / begs me to breathe / to stop crying. / To return.
Fire. Feed. Eat. Live. / The warmth he seeks / claws at his childhood with / diseases, scars, and burns.

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