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Picture of Boy, Looking Away (Gaza 2015)
by Marjorie Lotfi
12-year old Abdulrahman, seated on the rubble of his home, where his father (who was also his teacher) was killed by a bomb
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I would like to tell the boy to look us in the eye, the cameraman
can do nothing with this angle, that what’s left is just more
of the rubble of home he’s sitting on like the king
of a demolished kingdom. Around him, sheets of metal coil
under the objects they once sheltered: desk legs, window frames,
still half-open, and the innards of concrete, steel nets poking
from the sand, catching only wind. His knuckles rest
between mouth and nose in a classic thinker’s pose,
while the other hand is poised on his hip, fingers bent back
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