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White Phosphorus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Ghazal for Gaza written on 5th<\/sup> November 2023<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n All Hallows\u2019 Eve 2023, tenth anniversary<\/span> Outside the half-curtained living room window Over 2,000 miles away, screams in the dark Blossoms of white phosphorus tinselling down, Firework display pre-empting this fifth A burial ground of rubble, its grey-limbed children This Nakba broadcast live to traumatised Westerners, Gaza under rubble. Gaza an open grave, an open wound. Protests & marches swell in numbers each weekend, Palestine\u201d, \u201cin our thousands, in our millions, we That pretend to protect us, but only contain us, Unputdownable attempts at coming to terms & gruesomely gaslighting hegemonies\u2014 That slow burn through to the bone, scald the soul, Silver tentacles of giant jellyfish streaking in the sky Remember, remember, this fifth of November White Phosphorus A Ghazal for Gaza written on 5th November 2023 All Hallows\u2019 Eve 2023, tenth anniversaryOf my mother\u2019s passing from Huntington\u2019s Disease; Outside the half-curtained living…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":15904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2900,2901,2899,2845,2194,2898],"class_list":["post-15905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-5th-november","tag-all-hallows-eve","tag-fireworks","tag-gaza","tag-palestine","tag-white-phosphorus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905","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\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Of my mother\u2019s passing from Huntington\u2019s Disease;<\/p>\n
Excited laughter of children doing trick or treat\u2014<\/p>\n
Of Gazan night, pitch black but for sparkly<\/p>\n
Fluorescent flowers of destruction\u2014deadly<\/p>\n
Of November 2023\u2026 Gaza will be<\/p>\n
Pulled out from under it, ashen ghosts grown in debris\u2026<\/p>\n
Nerves numbed by jump scares. Gaza under siege.<\/p>\n
But from that rubble blooms indomitable solidarity\u2014<\/p>\n
Hundreds of thousands chanting \u201cceasefire now\u201d, \u201cfree, free <\/em><\/p>\n
<\/em>Are all Palestinians\u201d<\/em>\u2014in our iPhone open prisons<\/p>\n
Doomscrolling in apocalypse dependency<\/p>\n
With a graphically unacceptable telepathy,<\/p>\n
But our suffering is nothing on Gazan agonies<\/p>\n
Scar lives forever with obliterating bouquets,<\/p>\n
Streaming down stinging tendrils lethally, illegally\u2026<\/p>\n
<\/em>White phosphorus fireworks stream down on Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"