Mishmish

Like olive groves, cloned roots

If you spit the pits, might hurt to sit on

Loot's good, since '48

Feels at home, cardamom and mint

Ate the mishmish, meshugaim

Does Anne Frank justify this hate?

Does Josephus justify this hate?

Six digits blue-inked on Saba's skin

Birkenau, out of Egypt to Jerusalem

Free at last, planted that lemon tree

How do we square the blood in Deir-Yassin?

Ficus drinks in pink patio

Pigeon-coos, terraced anemones

Hadil in spring, buried 'neath terebinth

2008, walled in Bethlehem

Does Primo L. justify this hate?

How do we square the blood in Deir-Yassin?