Small pale feathers surround my body as I awake
Was it my heart fluttering in the night
Insight the rib cage?
These days, I wish I could fear.
It would help to share humanity with those
whom eat and drink precarious life every
waking moment.
We are on different planets, although no ocean divides us.
Different in how you move, what you call space, what you
allow yourself to hope for,
what the soft animal
inside your body tells you when you are alone.
Time is the largest distance between two points.
Here in Palestine, those two
points never meet.
Perhaps my heart flutters for it knows,incredibly,
the these times will be remembered as
"The Good Days".

12/3/07
Ein Karem