In Solidarity with Palestine
Acta Victoriana stands in solidarity with Palestine.
Acta Victoriana stands in solidarity with Palestine.
The hot medium of flames smacks
upward, whacks sheer eyes
with a stencil of blue and green.
There is a foreigner
on this shore.
From foreign lands, with
Foreign hands,
Knocking at my door.
4 pm sunlight carves golden frames on cream walls
a city, blue glass and white birds,
dances beyond
Have you seen the lions on the library ceiling? They’re pawing at the edges of ontology, where flowers bow like gentlemen with Sinatra-style fedora hats. Everyone is lithe, lither than pigeons bopping on the curb and squirrels scrambling at a crumb of bread, and yet the lions lie in stubborn stone. Nothing to do but dance.