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Still life.

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For those of you who don't know,
I am a Palestinian-American.

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And for those of
you who don't care.

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You write your name
on unstained glass

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so you're either
broken or seen through.

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When it came time
for the affidavit

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the panel asked, how much art
over the blood of strangers

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the word mentioned the
weather and the sleepers

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under the weather.

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All this was preceded by
tension enzymatic to the hills

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behind us and the forests
ahead where children don't

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sleep in resting
tremor and shelling

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the Earth is a pomegranate.

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A helmet, ocher or copper,
sinks in buoyant salt water,

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divers seek its womb
despite its dura mater

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and it hangs on trees
like pregnant mistletoes.

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I'll stand next to one and have
my German lover remember me

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on a Mediterranean island
though she would eventually

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wed an Israeli
once she'd realized

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what she wanted from life.

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A mother of two.

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On the nose of Mount Carmel
where my wife's father was born

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driven out.

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My father's hands
depearl the fruit.

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In a few minutes, add
a drop of rosewater,

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some shredded coconut for
us to gather around him.

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He will lead his
grandchildren out,

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transfer bundles of pine
branches in the yard

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to where his tomatoes and
cucumbers grow in summer.

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Let them gather the dried
pine needles forever, he says.

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They will refuse to
believe the fire dies.

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And they will listen to
his fire on a cold night

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in a forest of eucalyptus
trees that the British

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had planted as natural
reserve outside Gaza.

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