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Poetry || SubmissionsSacred ExplosionBy Rowena Silver events unfold sheets unfold bleached muslin bleeds red streets flow red Passover red River Nile red tainted bile red sirens slash night air knifing hearts numb wild wailing rises from Western Wall choruses Haifa, Ramallah, and Gaza attend red pours through The Eye of the Needle flooding a dance floor a check point a market accord pass over red red flowing red drowing and grieving obliterates dreaming whom do we implore? they call her a "sacred explosion" but she was a "suicide bomber" How could she know better? She studied her lessons with pride red flowing red pass over red she was sixteen and alive, with big eyes More poems by Rowena Silver at Ariga. You can write to her She also has poems at epicentermagazine.org Today's Situation
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