Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do
DEAR READER
Not today Justin

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Sade Olutola
will byers stan first human second
Xuebing Du
Stranger Things
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
wallacepolsom
occasionally subtle

Janaina Medeiros
Misplaced Lens Cap

if i look back, i am lost
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Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do
يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ
“O Turner of the hearts, affirm my heart upon Your religion.”
اللّٰهُمَّ أَصْلِحْ قَلْبِي وَعَمَلِي
“O Allāh rectify my heart and my action”
اللهُمَّ طَهِّرْ قَلْبِي مِنْ كُلِّ سُوْءٍ
“O Allāh, purify my heart from every evil.”
من فوقهم الطائرات ومن خلفهم الصواريخ وعلى يسارهم البحر وعلى يمينهم النار والدبابات وذاهبون للمجهول.💔🇵🇸
"Above them are the planes, behind them the missiles, to their left the sea, to their right the fire and tanks, and they are heading into the unknown."
Ya Rabb, give them a way out as you gave way to Musa (pbuh), destroy those who drive them out of their homes, ya Allah 🤲🏻
فلسطيـن..
“when the law becomes oppression, the resistance becomes a must”
—Alejandra Pizarnik, “Silences In Motion”
a questionnaire, noor unnahar // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // lamb's head on a plate, viggo johansen // citizen illegal, josé olivarez // grief lessons: four plays by euripides; tr., anne carson
Amir Levine & Rachel Heller, Attached
poems for palestine|🇵🇸 🫒
“defiance”, mahmoud darwish
“i grant you refuge”, hiba abu nada
“a lullaby for gaza”, tayseer abu odeh
“who remembers the palestinians?”, sophia armen
“ against barbarity, poetry can only resist by confirming attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. ” << mahmoud darwish
Central Gaza, Dec 2023
SOBBING WITHOUT SOUND
I wish I could wake up and find the electricity on all day long.
I wish I could hear the birds sing again, no shooting and no buzzing drones.
I wish my desk would call me to hold my pen and write again,
or at least plow through a novel, revisit a poem, or read a play.
All around me are nothing
but silent walls
and people sobbing
without sound.
Mosab Abu Toha
Her final tweet on October 8 reads:
“Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”
"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]
الهدية [The Present] (Farah Nabulsi - 2020)
I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck (2016) (via lunamonchtuna)
translation:
if i die and leave and get martyred in this war, i will not forgive the Arab leaders who failed us. we lived through difficult days without food or water, and my hair is turning white even though i'm so young. may god never forgive you or give you relief. i swear i will tell the creator about you.
forgive me, mom. i love you so much. please don't be sad when i die.
my message to the people of egypt, yemen, jordan, algeria, libya, lebanon, tunisia, sudan, somalia, malaysia - please don't leave Gaza alone. please, please promise me to take care of her. i love you all, please don't leave us.
if anyone finds my message, please spread it.
the martyr, godwilling, Mohammad Abdulqader Husseini
25/03/2024