knew the city's history while
riding secretly in a tourist
bus around Jerusalem's streets
recently quieted by a suicide
bomber at Ben Yehuda market
taking pictures of walls coated
with memorial plaques, mementos
that can be looked at in the
safety of home in Virginia,
like a foreigner so deeply immersed
in exile she can no longer relate nor
enter into the unsettling rapids
of terror, daily resonating the past.
(c)Michal Mahgerefteh 2009
from In My Bustan
Poetica Publishing Co, Norfolk, VA
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