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“Gaza is not far away.” —Dr. Luke Peterson
It’s in your cuffs.
The cup you just drank from.
Empty bucket outside your back door with an inch of rain in it.
Sack of mulch to scatter on your winter beds.
Do you see these things as luxury?
It’s the crosswalk kids march in.
Mama with her yellow belt
waving them through. It’s rules.
It’s everything you keep a long time
in your refrigerator – pickles, tonic, apple butter.
Butter. The fact you have a refrigerator
and power to run it all day long.
Gaza might like that.
Zoe Cromwell, Untitled, acrylic on canvas, 2013 Artwork used by permission of the artist
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Kati Short
Thank you Ms. Nye for sharing "Gaza Is Not Far Away." You have become my newest favorite poet. I love it that your poetry is accessible but has the capacity to get under one's skin and itch till we think about it over and over and really want to share with everyone. This would have been a perfect "poem in my pocket."