GAZA

• run
• don’t run
• run
• the sky moves
• doesn’t move
• moves
• the sky moves
• the ground moves
• an F16
• firing something, the F16
• dropping something,  the F16
• a generator
• sounds like a generator
• generator
• only sounds like a generator
• a generator
• drones sound like generators
• sounds like a generator
• a tank shell
• plops like a tank shell
• it’s a tank shell
• intense bright lights
• out at sea, those lights
• intense bright lights
• blinking now, those lights
• out at sea, intense bright lights
• the sand spurts
• spirals,  the sand-column spurts
• curtain of sand, opens, spurts
• run
• don’t run
• hide, then run
• nowhere to run
• nowhere to hide and run
• fight
• can’t run, fight
• can’t hide, fight
• fight

Wilson John Haire. 30th July, 2014

 

GAZA CITY 7th AUGUST 2014

• Be reminded of Israeli atrocities
•   don’t let the years ease the pain
• through your liberal generosity
•   though you watched it
• through glass
•   without the putrid smell
• via the box of the mass
•   the nostrils not blocked
• from dust berserk
•  from enemy incoming
• shells
•   nor do you feel the heat
• from the burning rubble
•   but from under it
• you heard the cries
•   didn’t see six blackened bodies
• a mother and baby welded together
•   a father smothered by his three young sons
• in panic
•  lies
• on tin stretchers
•   one alive
• a nine year old girl legs flailing
•   unconscious trying to
• run
•  then silence
• she  thinks she dies
•   they who did it
• plead anti-Semitism
•   plead Holocaust
• take out writs
•   plead military hardware
• from the land
•   of burger and fries

Wilson John Haire  7th August, 2017

GAZA ON MY MIND

• You thought you were free to think,
•   to distinguish, to judge,
• when on to your mind they erected
•   a fence
•  of barbed chain-link,
•   you thought from the truth
• you couldn’t be budged
•   but with this cacophony of tin pots
• you lost the knack.
•   One, or was it two, brave souls
• launched
•   their fire-kite, the slingshot, the catapult
• at that border
•   then, from the watchtowers there winged
• origami planes to order
•    as media pulp.
• Up to your waist now in it,
•   apologising, suspending, expelling
•  those who go near the edge,
•   when it should be up with your mitts.
• While brave Gazans
•   expire in their prison land-wedge.

W.J, Haire.  1st August, 2018.