"Save Your Compassion For Your Children"

Some thoughts about tribalism, the conflict in Israel and Gaza, and a poem

I woke on Sunday morning thinking about a poem of mine. It was a poem called “Passover,” which was first published in 1990, during the first intifada, and was the winner of some kind of award, although I can’t remember which one. The magazine that printed it no longer exists, but the poem does, and when I went to find it, I discovered that it had an unc…