Description
A poem by Suheir Hammad about Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza.
jabaliya
by Suheir Hammad
a woman wears a bell carries a light calls searches
through madness of deir yessin calls for rafah for bread
orange peel under nails blue glass under feet gathers
children in zeitoun sitting with dead mothers she unearths
tunnels and buries sun onto trauma a score and a day rings
a bell she is dizzy more than yesterday less than
tomorrow a zig zag back dawaiyma back humming suba
back shatilla back ramleh back jenin back il khalil back il quds
all of it all underground in ancestral chests she rings