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.

'On soil made sterile by history...'

Poem: Resurrection?

'On soil made sterile by history...'

by Harvey Gillman 11th October 2024

On soil made sterile by history

tear gas canisters spent

but with the sickly smell of death

here where once a garden

bloomed.