Poem: Gaza nocturne

'Avert your gaze: the animals are grazing and the herdsmen...'

by Roger Iredale 27th September 2024

Avert your gaze: the animals are grazing and the herdsmen

grave. Sleep not for the drone of angry hawks and fear not

for the threat of death, or worse. There are no pastures here

nor silences for the privilege of hope. The light is worse

than dark though the spark of life may flicker through each 

deadly night. Those vast, those multitudinal audiences