The image is from a garden built out of tear gas canisters in Bil’in, Palestine, in memorial of Bassem Abu Rahmeh, who was killed in 2009 when a tear gas canister struck him in the torso. Photo: Courtesy Brant Rosen.
Poem: Resurrection?
'On soil made sterile by history...'
On soil made sterile by history
tear gas canisters spent
but with the sickly smell of death
here where once a garden
bloomed.