Incredible poetical account of living under occupation in occupied Palestine. I think the poem that hits me the hardest is “Elderly Woman Falls Asleep on my Shoulder”, because it shows an entire life or an entire world in just a few lines about a single day traveling from one side of the separation barrier to the other. Rifqa a lot of great quotable lines, such as “Who took poets off park benches to put commercials for poets on park benches” & “I wish I were a landlord/ to the tenants in my head”. The essays at the end are also very interesting, providing some extra personal context to all of the poems. I will want to check out “Bellydancing on Wounds” with Clarissa Bitar.