From the Fall 2015 Issue “Food Fight“
I. Jerusalem 586 B.C.
They that be slain with the sword are better
than they that be slain with hunger:
for these pine away, stricken through
for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 4:9
II. Damascus 2012
We ate grass we ate nothing but grass
and sparrows’ feet the name of a weed
our grandmother’s knew to boil
after the gas we sucked its green marrow and lived
Amineh Sawwan 9.7.90-
-Eliza Griswold
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[Photo courtesy of Patrick Loeff]