Derelictions of Grammar and Rhetoric
‘...achieve all of the war goals in Gaza’
latest official communiqué from the Israeli military government
Refrain of bombardment
and the oldest refrain of blockade
and starvation insist anaphora
is failing — from an outside
looking in, knowing a repetition
of death doesn’t add up to wisdom
or even a beautiful if pitiless verse.
The ‘goals of war’ are an intoning,
a grammar of removal. As cataphora
is to anaphora, why are they, the ‘citizen-soldiers’
so ready to sing a song of killing,
so ready to believe they will clear
a path through their consciences
with tanks and bulldozers?
John Kinsella
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