By Hannah Greenberg on June 22, 2010
The Egret Tree, South of Haifa
The Egret Tree, South of Haifa
Bloomed feathers whiting away
Days over fish ponds
(Meant to feed a small country).
.
Our bus chugged along;
You coiled sleep
Where suitcases and boxes overflowed;
Leftover lunch at sixty kilometers.
.
Toward Yerushalyim,
Thousands years’ more history,
Than dreams could conjure,
Walked among lanes.
.
Only the shirut driver knows
Dismembered babies paid hard
Currency for vacationers’ safety;
The desert’s mystery’s more than sand.
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Posted in Established Authors, Poetry | Tagged Jewish poetry, K.J. Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg still giggles in her sleep. She contributes regularly to the speculative fiction ezine Bewildering Stories, and to the British continuum parenting publication, The Mother Magazine. You can find her writing under select budgies and in dozens of other places including, respectively, the wonderfully named venues of Fallopian Falafel, Diet Soap, and Morpheus Tales. In 2009, Hannah was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry. In 2010, French Creek Press will be publishing her essay collection, Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting
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Katushas & qassams – of course you will never accept them. That makes total sense. But never accepting the legal representation in Knesset of Israeli Arabs? Never accepting the religious symbols of people who share the land with you? I don’t understand how that is poetry.
Sue, if “logic,” as we understand the axiology undergirding that term, per Western Civilization’s Enlightenment Era heritage, sufficed, then the nations would not try to bombard Israel with rhetorical or actual missiles, but would be flocking to support our holy land. We Jews need to deal with “what is,” not with “what if.” The status quo, in this case, is that our artful enemies are succeeding in turning our disenfranchised members against us. Why is it so frightening to take an actual stand for our nation and for our people?
Truth, whether in the case of governments or in the case of individuals, must always come before popularity. It’s harder, but cleaner to live accordingly.