From the back cover:

jabaliya

by Suheir Hammad

a woman wears a bell carries a light calls searches

through madness of deir yessin calls for rafah for bread

orange peel under nails blue glass under feet gathers

children in zeitoun sitting with dead mothers she unearths

tunnels and buries sun onto trauma a score and a day rings

a bell she is dizzy more than yesterday less than

tomorrow a zig zag back dawaiyma back humming suba

back shatilla back ramleh back jenin back il khalil back il quds

all of it all underground in ancestral chests she rings

a bell promising something she can’t see faith is that

faith is this all over the land under the belly

of wind she perfumed the love of a burning sea

concentrating refugee camp

crescent targeted red

a girl’s charred cold face dog eaten body

angels rounded into lock down shelled injured shock

weapons for advancing armies clearing forests sprayed onto a city

o sage tree human skin contact explosion these are our children

she chimes through nablus back yaffa backs shot under

spotlight phosphorous murdered libeled public relations

public

relation

a bell fired in jericho rings through blasted windows a woman

carries bones in bags under eyes disbelieving becoming

numb dumbed by numbers front and back gaza onto gaza

for gaza am sorry gaza am sorry she sings for the whole

powerless world her notes pitch perfect the bell a death toll