Remember the splintered staccato of bullets against rock, t… - Lisa Suhair Majaj

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Remember the splintered staccato
of bullets against rock, the way dust rose
in the stunned aftershock of silence?

Lisa Suhair Majaj

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Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) is a Palestinian-American poet and scholar.

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Once she could have held anything steady
and safe: a glass of tea, her brother's baby.
Now her hands shake at the weight of a fork.

Bless poetry books that cross oceans
in battered envelopes,
bearing small flames of words.

No matter how far you've come, remember:
the starting line is always closer than you think.

Remember the splintered staccato of bullets against rock, the way dust rose in the stunned aftershock of silence? - Lisa Suhair Majaj

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