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      May 11, 2018A Matter of TimeAnnie Kantar

      Gaza

      Say one scalding summer,
      you had 100 minutes
       
      alone of electricity each day:
       
      how would you use them?
       
      Maybe you’d have
      dinner by the LED,
       
      or bring them to the sea,
       
      shine figure 8s on the foam.
      But what if the water
       
      nauseates?
       
      Bored at home,
      would you let them go?
       
      They’re about to come on.
       
      Would you waste
       
      what you’ve got for talk
      of failing sewage pumps?
       
      If you fall
       
      asleep,
      will they
      be yours?
       
      Would you play them
       
      from your phone?
      Draw them in the sand?
       
      If a line, where and when?
      The drones care.
       
      Say the sea
      takes them—
       
      would that matter?
       
      And if someone calls?
      Will you answer?

      from #59 - Spring 2018

      Annie Kantar

      “This past summer, Gaza was cut off from all but 1-2 hours of electricity a day. As of publication, Gazans are allocated only 3-4 hours a day. This poem was born of a desire to articulate, in some small measure, the madness in that normalcy.”

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