These are the photos of Jenin:
There are houses
in ruins
ready-made mausoleums
for the bodies within.
There are faces
of families
families in ruins
a son half in a pit
a body in a pool, human red
a daughter unrecognised
the open-mouthed faces of newly widowed women
with the husks of their newly dead
These are the photos of Jenin
a place of refuge
for the dispossessed of Palestine.
Homeless again
their homes now but tracks
for the gritty traction of the tanks.

BY OWEN RICHARDS

From Green Left Weekly, June 19, 2002.
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