From Tehran to Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv to Tehran,
the world’s worried gaze follows–
the flying trajectory of
unsparing projectiles,
the unsettling light shows
in the night’s nonchalant sky,
the pawned population’s
panicky search for shelters,
the ineffaceable images of
burning buildings,
the afflicting account of death tolls,
the autopsy of win and loss,
the futile prospect of peace talks,
and the anxiety of
apocalyptic escalation.
Meanwhile in Gaza…
the usual continues.
Rakibul Hasan Khan is a Bangladeshi academic, poet, and writer based in New Zealand. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Otago, where he remains affiliated. His scholarly and creative work have been published internationally. He can be contacted at [email protected].
