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PORTSIDE CULTURE

TRANSLATING MYSELF FOR GAZA  
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Beau Beausoleil

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_ West Coast poet Beau Beausoleil offers an apology to the many
strangers he cannot save. _

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In a map of the HeavensI found your house

as it was before the genocide

a green table some olives ina red bowl

books leaning this way and that

your wife writing nearby

Well before your children whose voices played around us     grew
silent

and were erased from the text of their future

If I could get there onmy own

would you two still be alive to welcome mein the rubble of
 yourmemory

as a fellow poet

deserving your griefand anger

as a stranger who meantyou no harmbut allowed others to killyour
prayers in plain sightof my life in words

Perhaps my friendsforgive meone day out of many

_Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist based in San Francisco,
California. His most recent chapbook is called War News (daily poems
responding to the first three months of the genocidal war in Gaza),
which appeared as a free online ebook published by Agitate! Journal.
Forthcoming is a second volume in the War News series, War News II
(11/9/23 - 6/3/24), to be published momentarily by fmsbw press in San
Francisco._

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