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Poetry || SubmissionsPoems by Alan MumfordWadi Adamit, Western Galilee In Wadi Adamit Peter has taken a chance with his Uzi and aimed. "See that tree?" The F16s have screamed north, the green stream has flowed beneath the canopy of figs, picnickers have passed from the shade into the startling light of a wildflower meadow. A music of crickets and bees and goats' bells recedes; the sun throws long shadows on the green valley wall, the Uzis are cool and heavy on our backs, the sky is criss-crossed white with vapour trails, jet scars, war. Birdsong after a bomb on Rehov Ben Yehuda. As they lay on the cool tiled floor her back is arched like a bow and the thin red curtain is ruffled with each shallow breath of the breeze. A small bird hops along the sill, singing a song like a serenade for the lovers who slip and slide in this intricate coiling of limbs. And like some small black red-beaked fan the bird flutters across them and back, and when only the palms of her hands and her feet touch the floor the small bird flies under her body's bridge to sing on the sill while they slide. Alan Mumford says he "is a father, a poet, an observer of (and fretter over) Middle Eastern affairs, and a one-time resident of Galilee. Published in the UK in Poetry Wales, Ambit, Poetry London, and elsewhere." He now lives in London. Alan Mumford Today's Situation
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