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The Woman Aaron

speaks of deserts: of oases & life, of honey dates & oranges, of quicksand &
hunters on horseback. The desert is like that,

life in one hand, death in the other. It’s been so since the first camel, the first
scorpion, the first enigmatic nomad.

She also speaks of hyenas (driven mad by memories), of tanks & phosphorus
bombs & burns that never heal,

of missiles & mortars & vultures hunkering. Today is day eighteen of desert
war, war that began forty years ago, or

five thousand seven hundred sixty nine years ago. It cloaks the land of milk
& honey in its quilt of blood.

She speaks now of the fearful (huddled in shattered doorways) & the broken
(missing eyes & arms), the demented

(mumbling under blankets of bones) & of the heroic (clawing though rubble
seeking the lost, the dying & the dead).


Gaza Israel 1-13-2009

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from Of What I've Seen, released August 26, 2023
Roger Aplon - spoken word
Marcos Fernandes - percussion, ney, Pro-One

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Marcos Fernandes 横浜市, Japan

A native of Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes spent over three decades in California as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Hong Kong and Japan as a solo singer-songwriter, improviser, phonographer and percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles, dancers, poets and visual artists. ... more

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