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.
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
tear gas canisters spent
but with the sickly smell of death
here where once a garden
bloomed.
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