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Gazan Cull

A sniper's deliberate shot fells a kneeling girl, erasing an Arab womb.

December 1, 2021

Through telescopic sights
a sniper spots
the girl kneeling to tend
a prostrate man
brings the cross-hairs
to her temple
allows for wind-drift
mindful squeezes
the trigger only.
Sideways she slumps
across her patient โ€”
One Arab womb the fewer.

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Gaza and 2 other poems

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Murray Alfredson

Murray Alfredson is a former librarian, lecturer in librarianship and Buddhist Associate in the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy at Flinders University. He has won a High Beam poetry award 2004, the Poetry Unhinged Multicultural Poetry Prize 2006, the Friendly Street Poets Political poetry prize 2009. He serves the editorial panel of different international journals and magazines. He is at Ashvamegh editorial panel. He describes himself as a poet, essayist and skeptic. He is the author of Gleaming Clouds (Interactive Publications). He lives in Australia.

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