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| A civil defence member carries an injured girl after an airstrike in the rebel-controlled city of Idlib, Syria. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah, September 17, 2016. |
The ceasefire grows more fragile.
Nights now of shelling
after years of street fighting.
How can the resistance still resist?
Where do supplies come from?
Who cooks the rice, the lentils?
It’s not the ceasefire that’s fragile.
Who has lentils? Whose stove works?
Edward A. Dougherty teaches a Corning Community College, and is the author of Grace Street (Cayuga Lake Books, 2016), Everyday Objects (Plain View, 2015) and other collections of poetry.