Counting


When can we count the dead in Gaza,

their dead are just a number,

a vague number, 

if that.

In Ukraine we know the numbers,

precise, not vague,

in Israel we know the numbers,

precise, not vague.

Soon we’ll know the names.

But no need to count the dead in this war

on women and their children

born or unborn.


How can we count the injured in Gaza.

No one knows the number,

no one  can count those numbers

when there are no hospitals left.


Now the starved and starving 

have joined them,

the bags of baby bones

the unaccounted numbers

of intentional famine

in Gaza.


https://www.amazon.com/Otherwise-Engaged-Literature-Journal-Summer/dp/B0D6LSN8XX/ref=sr_1_15?crid=2K4SN5ESETF5P&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dA2QJvWdySLmxChOuluEwkOn8MWvgvIDuMGkkVOT3cID1avt-HT9PbnIG6SGd6rWuuS34Z8W0j1tAvLQ5AAt-8Ig1gVjaJmvbjazGkdB6nAMIwJBRnATniTR1Oz9NbaUvpdgugL2KcSk_fBcB4lQH-vR5BdnWsxROW3ugGxEcMdmCZkBdVOVLMi0hsqptSPaW2YZW5SKpiXAye5KWVET1ReqA7vj3n1pmfEOeysGYQM.8m89a1ariwoDmABE-fTKsF8yyr0vfBeLXCGgYySeNwU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Marzia+Dessi&qid=1718056232&sprefix=marzia+dessi%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-15

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