Tag: Homeland
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[Saed] It is a journey through dust.
By Saed, Gaza Strip, Palestine, September 7, 2026 It is a journey through dust.Glory to the winds,to the statues of flies,to the national anthemabove the tents.A homeland that rains downrotting corpses,empty coffins,and ruins.A homeland that distributes usin relief boxes,while death arrivesin trucks.Phobia…Schizophrenia…and splitness.Give back to my heart its wing.Give back to my soulthe voice of…
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A Sea in My Name… and a Wounded Homeland
By Joy of Ghazza, Gaza Strip, Palestine, September 2025 I don’t know…Or perhaps, I do this time. Today, a desire unlike any before compels me to rebuild my fractured self. I’m not sure if that’s the word for all the past chapters, those stations that still linger on me like bruises. Today, for the first…
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[Saed] I carry in my bag keys with no doors
By Saed, Gaza Strip, Palestine, April 7, 2026 I carry in my bag keys with no doors— keys to a house whose trace I have never found. In my city, I wander among heaps of rubble, searching for the meaning of a street that has lost its features, whose memory has scattered across its bends…