Over This Here Rainbow

The first 187 names of those murdered in the ongoing Gaza massacre were released today:
Rami Ash-Sheikh
Raafat Shamiyya
Riziq Salman
Rif’at Sa’da
Rafiq Na’im
Ramzi Al-Haddad
Ziyad Abu ‘Ubada
Sarah Al-Hawajiri
Salim Abu Shamla
Salim Qreinawi
Sa’id Hamada
Salim Al-Gharir
Suheil Tambura
Shadi Sbakhi
Shahada Quffa
Shahada Abd ar-Rahman
Sabir Al-Mabhouh
Suhayb Abu ‘Iffat
Suhayb Abd al-’aal
Tal’at Salman
Tal’at Basal
‘Aasim Ash-Shaer
‘Aasim Abu Kamil
Abid Ad-Dahshan
Abd ar-Raziq Shahtu
Abd as-Sami’ An-Nashar
Abdul-Fattah Abu
‘Uteiwi
Abdul-Fattah Fadil
Abdullah Juneid
Abdullah Al-Ghafari
Abdullah Rantisi
Abdullah Wahbi
Arafat Farajallah
Azmi Abu Dalal
Isam Al-Ghirbawi
‘Alaa Al-Qatrawi
‘Alaa Al-Kahlout
‘Alaa ‘Uqeilan
‘Alaa Nasr Ar-Ra’i
Ali Awad
Imab Abu Al-Hajj
Omar Darawsha
Omran Ar-ran
Anan Ghaliya
Gharib Al-Assar
Muhammad Hboush
Muhammad Al-Mabhouh Husam Ayyash
Hasan Baraka
Muhammad Sha’ban
Muhammad Abu ‘Abdo Hasan Abid Rabbo
Hasan Al-Majayda
Muhammad Salih
Hussein Al-A’raj
Muhammad Tabasha
Muhammad Al-Habeil Hussein Dawood
Hussein ‘Uroq
Muhammad Abdullah
Hakam Abu Mansi
Aziz
Hamada Abu Duqqa
Muhammad AbdulHamada Safi
Wahhab Aziz
Hamdan Abu Nu’eira
Muhammad Awad
Haydar Hassuna
Muhammad Abd AnKhalid Zu’rub
Nabi
Khalid Abu Hasna
Muhammad Salih
Muhammad An-Najari Khalid An-Nashasi
Khalid Shaheen
Muhammad Hamad
Fayiz Riyad Al-Madhoun
Muhammad Barakat
Fayiz Ayada Al-Madhoun
Muhammad Muhanna
Fayiz Abu Al-Qumsan
Mahmoud Al-Khalidi
Mahmoud Abu Harbeid Camellia Al-Bardini
Ma’moun Sleim
Mahmoud Abu Matar
Mahmoud Abu Tabour Mazin ‘Ulayyan
Muhammad Al-Ghimri
Mahmoud Abu Nahla
Muhammad Al-Halabi
Mustafa Al-Khateib
Muhammad Asaliyya
Mustafa As-Sabbak
Muhammad Az-Zatma
Mu’ein Hamada
Muhammad Az-ahra
Mu’ein Al-Hasan
Muhammad Gaza
Mumtaz An- Najjar
Muhammad An-Nuri
Mansour Al-Gharra
Muhammad Abu Sabra
Nasser Al-Gharra
Muhammad Abu ‘Amir
Nahidh Abu Namous
Muhammad Abu Libda
Nabil Al-Breim
Wasim Azaza
Nathir Al-Louqa
Walid Abu Hein
Ni’ma Al-Maghari
Walid Jabir Abu Hein
Na’im Kheit
Yasser Ash-Shaer
Na’im Al-Kafarna
Yasser Al-Lahham
Na’im Al-Anzi
Yahya Al-Hayik
Nimir Amoum
Yahya Sheikha
Hisham Rantisi
Yahya Mahmoud Sheikha
Hisham Al-Masdar
Yousif Thabit
Hisham Abu ‘Uda
Yousif Al-Jallad
Hisham ‘Uweida
Yousif Sha’ban
Humam An-Najjar
Yousif Diab
Hanaa Al-Mabhouh
Yousif Al-Anani
Haytham Hamdan
Yousif An-Najjar
Haytham Ash-Sher
Younis Ad-D
Wadei’ Al-Muzayyin
OVER
THIS
HERE
L A R S P A L M
Ibrahim Al-Jamaj
Ibrahim Al-Jamaj
Isma’il Al-Husari
Isma’il Salem
Isma’il Ghneim
Eyman Natour
Eyhab Ash-Shaer
Ibrahim Mahfoudh
Abu Ali Ar-Rahhal
Ahmad Al-Halabi
Ahmad Al-Kurd
Ahmad Al-Lahham
Ahmad Al-Hums
Ahmad At-Talouli
Ahmad Zu’rub
Ahmad Abu Jazar
Ahmad Radwan
Ahmad ‘Udah
Ahmad Abu Mousa
Ahmad Tbeil
Adham Al-Areini
Osama Abu Ar-Rus
Osama Abu Ar-Reish
Osama Darweish
Ashraf Ash-Sharabasi
Ashraf Abu Suhweil
Amjad Abu Jazar
Ameen Az-Zarbatli
Anas Hamad
Anwar Al-Bardini
Anwar Al-Kurd
Ayman Abu Ammouna
Ayman An-Nahhal
Ibrahim Abu Ar-Rus
Basil Dababish
Bassam Makkawi
Bilal Omar
Bahaa Abu Zuhri
Tamir Qreinawi
Tamir Abu Afsha
Tawfiq Al-Fallit
Tawfiq Jabir
Thaer Madi
Jabir Jarbu’
Hatim Abu Sha’ira
Hamid Yasin
Raed Dughmush
RAINBOW
Wheelhouse Press 2009
& so it was
they
threw the ball
just a tad
too far & killed
the father
on the seventh
day it came
(verb past
tense) to pass
that a preacher
came to town
for which you
need a rope
some kind of
trick & an
audience of
at least one
some old
country crooner
howling at the
full moon
a few days
too soon
buddha (alive, what’s
he doing still alive?)
trudging up a slope to
wards the tree
tops only to find a
lotus flowering there too
it is commendable
using less water
but you really
need to be able
to flush down
a proper crap
lost his hand
can’t re
member which
one, to a blender out
of curiosity now some
how satisfied
the moon is
in the
water & have
we learned no
thing from li
po?
a new sentence. &
another 350 years
with possible half
time parole. as
for chairs, what
news is there?
are you
serious? are
you really
serious? can you
seriously say
you’re
simple statements of
fact: people have basic
needs. the current world
order is contrary to their
fulfillment. simple
question: what to do?
what happens when the dust blows sideways?
what happens when someone finally notices?
what happens when the driver loses his head?
what happens if he doesn’t happen to notice?
what happens between the fact?
what happens when you get two minutes notice?
old lady
judges
bums
stars
share the side
walk
a poetics?
(
) will
this do?
a few drops
of rain &
the umbrella
vendors grow
out of the
pavements
that mountain simply
exploded giving
the cow flight for the
first time in her
life. or so she
said later
on the day
after the
preacher was
run out
by angered
citizens
it was good
being an hour
behind this morning
the next step is
not knowing what
faces are in power
Lars Palm lives in Malmö, in southern Sweden, where he works too much, writes, translates, runs ungovernable press
& sometimes reviews. He is the author of a growing number of chapbooks in print & online. some time, with any
luck in a not too distant future there may be a long book as well