love poem by Suheir Hammad
it is late raining tonight
the only safe space i know
is the air still warm right after
a kiss the place where lips almost meet
breath lives electric
need is past now i hunger
not in heat but searching
for more than a pyre to sun me and my body
is straining against sleep
close
i want to be open and hide
the children of palestine within me
head first i would bear down
bring them into me
an act of desperate love
the isreali army shoots children in the head
i would shelter them where
it is warm where limbs meet
where life is where babies
come from horizon dawning
pray these children
grow up fall in love
make love everywhere always
be human be alive
it is said sex is
in the head where god is
where too ancestry where
vision and memory
and the ability to hear angels
place palestine's
children in this sacred
air between kisses breathe them in
love them safe until
the israeli army stops
shooting children in the head Art by Hannah Buckman
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