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The Pine Trees
This poem was written by Gabrielle Spear in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis
The Jewish National Fund planted pine trees to cover up over 530 Palestinian villages demolished by Zionist forces in 1947-1948. The pine trees were intended to make the new Ashkenazi immigrants feel at home.
with every crevice desecrated
in your ruins
with our breath
bloomed deception
grafted indigeneity
foliage paid in blood
but do not deny
from the rubble
still
making a hearth of this arid landscape
they fear
our invasive ancestry
our diseased chests
their crimes
our flames
won’t be contained
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Gabrielle Spear’s collection Doorways
Gabrielle Spear is a poet and educator raised in Northwest Arkansas and based in Baltimore. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Protean Magazine, Hobart After Dark, Anomaly, The Hunger, Sonora Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter @gabsters93 and on Instagram @verycuteasparagus.
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