Poem of the week: from The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi | Poetry
Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowableand unknowable dangers: sheets of metal rippedto knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reachingfor light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail,is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter downone concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bellsof rockets ring out above her. She carries a boyon her still narrow hips, his legs entwined aroundher yellow dungarees. Like a…