yesterday a bird flew through
The texts in this zine are just a small selection of the many poems, books, novels, articles, and essays about Palestine. I have intentionally selected texts by men and women who are Palestinian or Jewish. I have also chosen a mix of poems, fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and opinion to give an understanding of a subject from many approaches. Most of these texts are excerpted and I hope that you will feel compelled to go read them in full. This is only a very small thing that we can do, but I believe this is important: reading the words of people who are or who have been directly aected by the war and genocide in Gaza and the long fight for Palestinian liberation.
The image on the other side was drawn after reading a poem by Sam Sax and a line by Etel Adnan. The bird is a Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea) which loves to drink nectar and has a trilling call. I was struck by these images: a bird flying through an airport causing, either literally by the bird’s power or simply imagined in the mind of the author, a border zone to collapse; a land seeded and flourishing with eyes refusing to be closed, despite a lack of water, sun—the basic requirements for life. I hope these images and these words might stay with lasting strength in a heart (yours?) or might move someone (you?) to action.
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