
Serenade to a Syria Rebuilding | by Andre Bshara
In the footing that you lack / We humans who take our share / Will bid the wolves attack

In the footing that you lack / We humans who take our share / Will bid the wolves attack

“I have a kid who’s scared at home”, he says as he prepares for a chest tube, his practised hands vexed by a nearly imperceptible quiver.

Clouds assemble in the sky to wade
Forming here a heart and there a spade

The forest speaks through my fingertips / My roots connected to hers / Feeling nature through this grip