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A plume of smoke, visible at a distance
In which people burn.\u2014George Oppen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plumes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love, can I call you that, you called me that the other night, Love, I couldn\u2019t move today, or only sank, fell, falling. Today I slept until I couldn\u2019t and looked for your call. Your message woke me. I replied. Twice, worried you hadn\u2019t gotten the first. And you replied, and I thought, What folly. I cleared and fell asleep again. I looked for you online. Friends post pictures of Gaza in pieces, people in bits. The skyline in plumes. Plume, a pretty word, but who can afford it? I click through the OED, arranged in pixels on my screen. Regarding the souls of poets, Plato said, \u201cArrayed as they are in the plumes of rapid imagination, they speak truth.\u201d Beholding the Angels Life and Death, Longfellow wrote of \u201csomber houses hearsed with plumes of smoke.\u201d In \u201cThe Exile,\u201d Ibrahim Nasrallah, an exile, writes, \u201cPoets surround me like the fruit of regret.\u201d If we began as light, we became flesh and have become information. Light unto sensor into bytes. Digits, pixels. Our daily bread. The news feed: Omar al-Masharawi, eleven months, dead of burns, wrapped in white, borne upon his father\u2019s arms, whose fingers splay across the shroud, steady and soft. More photos. In Gaza City, Jabaliya, more shrouds. Charred blocks in Khan Younis, Beit Lahiya. The dead, the dying. Rubble, stalks of rebar, ash and limbs. Columns of smoke gore the air, choking daylight. Missiles from a distance. And from a distance, plumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Arash Saedinia<\/em>
from<\/em> Rattle #54, Winter 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The poem about Gaza was written by an Iranian-American artist and educator in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some 2018<\/strong> facts from Amnesty International<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of October, 150 Palestinians had been killed, 10,000 had been injured, \u201cincluding 1,849 children, 424 women, 115 paramedics and 115 journalists. Of those injured, 5,814 were hit by live ammunition.\u201d The death toll rose by early December to 175 and by the end of the year to an alleged 220, and those shot in the legs are by now at least 6,392.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Israeli soldier has been killed and one injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Any argument in favor of self-defense has to be abandoned here:https:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2019\/01\/against-humanity-protesters.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Human Rights and Gender Justice Law Clinic (HRGJ) at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law just submitted a human rights abuse report to the UN about 45 children being killed during the Right of Return Marches since last March. The report notes that of the 56 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the OPT during 2018, a total of 45 children were killed in the Gaza Strip since March 30, according to evidence collected by DCIP. In the overwhelming majority of cases, DCIP was able to confirm children did not present any imminent, mortal threat or threat of serious injury when killed by Israeli forces.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photographs today are industrial plumes, not the plumes of war and occupation. Music here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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