{"id":15789,"date":"2023-11-16T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-breaking-of-bread-and-catastrophe-two-poems-on-gaza\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:27:50","slug":"the-breaking-of-bread-and-catastrophe-two-poems-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-breaking-of-bread-and-catastrophe-two-poems-on-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breaking of Bread and Catastrophe: Two poems on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/a062ebb561990dedd2eb2fcc3814dfb2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The breaking of bread<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Janet Sillett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Families queuing for round flat loaves<br \/>each morning before dawn <br \/>the struggle for bread<\/p>\n<p>Sharq Bakery in Gaza City bombed late October 2023<br \/>in the doorway blood mixes with flour <br \/>the smell of baking lingering in the space that is left<\/p>\n<p>I recall Jewish black bread, caraway studded <br \/>the scent of my grandmother\u2019s house in Salford 1960<br \/>reconstruction in flour and yeast<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Catastrophe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Janet Sillett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Starved of light<br \/>an exodus in slow motion before the rains of a Gazan winter<br \/>the memory of dispossession in every stone<\/p>\n<p>I picture the grey Polish landscape of my imagination<br \/>lines of people displaced moving<br \/>always moving<\/p>\n<p>when people are unnamed <br \/>there is no need for bread<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>More than 70 percent of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.3 million have been displaced since 8 October 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Up to 2 million Jews fled the pogroms in the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breaking of bread by Janet Sillett Families queuing for round flat loaveseach morning before dawn the struggle for bread Sharq Bakery in Gaza City bombed late&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":15788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2884],"class_list":["post-15789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-genocide-in-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}