Poet, mother, educator at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, second collection forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press.
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ALT Picture of Aaron Bushnell. A white man in a light checkered top smiling.
ALT THE LAMP I write in order to comprehend not to express myself I don't grasp anything I'm not ashamed to admit it sharing this not knowing with a maple leaf So I turn with questions to words wiser than myself to things that will endure long after us I wait to gain wisdom from chance I expect sense from silence Perhaps something suddenly will happen and pulse with hidden truth like the spirit of the flame in the oil lamp under which we bowed our heads when we were very young and grandma crossed the bread with a knife and we believed in everything So now I yearn for nothing as much as for that faith
ALT The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has become a besieged war zone. Its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the last remaining in the north, has reportedly been damaged in heavy attacks in recent days. Access to the hospital is incredibly difficult but reports indicate that children who were treated there have been killed and injured in these attacks and its oxygen and water supplies have been damaged, disrupting critical care for the few still clinging to life inside. - Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
