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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
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Arrest
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
In the middle of all of this
just for a moment
can we stop to talk about the thirteen year old boy’s legs
still covered in thin hairs that have not grown long
enough to be coarse against the soldier’s palms,
their softness unnoticed by the
machine-gun callouses of the soldier’s hands
mangling the slender legs,
stripping them of their cheap jeans,
lifting them like kindling
from the floor of the army jeep,
splaying them apart so that even as he writhes in pain,
his legs battered by the soldier clad in
layers of fibers crafted by modern technology
to protect against weather, flames, the dust
of the earth, even as the Palestinian boy writhes
in pain on the floor, he tries to fold onto himself
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