for Amos Mahlouf, an Israeli settler
killed near the Palestinian village of Beit Jala
With gunfire and daily prayer
settlers are convinced: God is not dead.
Their enemies carved that proof
in the flesh of a man entering his fourth decade
in East Jerusalem, in the riverbed.
The Flowered Traffic Circle Restaurant
DIANE MEHTA
for Bilal and Hilal Salah, Palestinian twin brothers
killed minutes apart in the West Bank
Twins ran this café. From separate hilltops
they joined their father, crowned with Koranic
inscriptions, on postcards designed by their mother.
It's business as usual: more cars enter the circle,
the restaurant will be run by their brothers.
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Poetry from The Literary Review