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Thursday, October 24, 2024

CLEARING

by Indran Amirthanayagam




Palestinians are bombed, starved, herded, 

out of Northern Gaza. The Plan is to cut 

the Strip down further, have all residents 

take their moveable belongings 


to the South where they will float between 

tents, before builders come driving bull-

dozers and cranes, and cement trucks,

driving bricklayers to make new Israeli 


homes on even more occupied land. This 

cannot be stopped unless bombs are 

no longer delivered to the executioners, 

unless the Plan’s directors are caught 


and tried, until even more life’s 

spilt during the ongoing genocide.



Indran Amirthanayagam has just published Seer (Hanging Loose Press) and The Runner's Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil).  He is the translator of Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Dialogos Books). Mad Hat Press published his love song to Haiti: Powèt Nan Pò A (Poet of the Port). Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks) is a collection of Indran's poems. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly and helps curate Ablucionistas. He hosts the Poetry Channel on YouTube and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.