Rafah
A city on the edge of catastrophe.
Designated ‘safe zone’ where,
defying the limits of space,
over a million people
have been herded.
Choke point. Crossing
to nowhere. Edge
of annihilation.
Such moments
too many in power
across the globe
want to make history
before and as they happen.
To relegate. To regret
after the fact,
after massacres
have been totted up
and converted to statistics.
John Kinsella
