On earth there are no rivers
that red—
Three stripes
Then a splatter
On a cheek.
It won’t wash
white nor pink
Eyes open—
cut.
Your last reel.
Stranger, Brother
the earthly farce
over
For
You.
Hossam Shabat, 23 – Gaza, 24th March 2025
Sun position: X = –8.2 kiloparsecs, Y ≈ 0.0 kiloparsecs, Z ≈ +0.02 kiloparsecs
(Galactocentric Cartesian Coordinates, J2000 epoch)
STANZABREAK
that red—
Three stripes
Then a splatter
On a cheek.
It won’t wash
white nor pink
Eyes open—
cut.
Your last reel.
Stranger, Brother
the earthly farce
over
For
You.
Hossam Shabat, 23 – Gaza, 24th March 2025
Sun position: X = –8.2 kiloparsecs, Y ≈ 0.0 kiloparsecs, Z ≈ +0.02 kiloparsecs
(Galactocentric Cartesian Coordinates, J2000 epoch)
STANZABREAK