Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry Biology of Wildlife from LA to NY

from LA to NY

until the day it wasn’t

The calf’s family nudges it up to breathe

hoping he’ll appreciate the sacrifices they’ve made to keep the store afloat

It begins centuries before America even exists as a nation

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry Biology of Wildlife from LA to NYA love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti colonial and anti imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine. Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinian culture. In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of a nakba that never ended, of historical and cultural obfuscation, of unrelenting