Proost Through Lent 42

Eloise Grehan pointed us towards another Palestinian poet, Fady Joudah. It is so beautiful, so thanks to Eloise! She said this about the poem:

For me I often find concise, apparently simple, poetry can be some of the most impactful. And the frame of the child’s voice can offer us some of the deepest truth.

Mimesis
by Fady Joudah

My daughter

wouldn’t hurt a spider

That had nested

Between her bicycle handles

For two weeks

She waited

Until it left of its own accord

.

If you tear down the web I said

It will simply know

This isn’t a place to call home

And you’d get to go biking

.

She said that’s how others

Become refugees isn’t it?