the sequence kick-started again, owing perhaps to the first volume
going into PDF -- some closure, then some opening
Gaza City Blues
by Jeff Gburek, 2026
Chorus 52
if it were not so cold
if I could recall your true name
if the damned heavy
silence did not buzz
with viprous flies
& the clock not
coldly stalk my empty hours
with technical seconds
clinking like coins
spent on heating bills
& rent to pay the system
for it’s own endebted
futures, I might remember there are
swans somewhere, white and black, bonfires
of vanities, contrition
& that ever so central
yellow
rose
in Gaza
abloom
on the edge of
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