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photo by yousef khanfar / www . yousefkhanfar . com WORLDLIT.ORG 63 Lee van Laer (www. nefersweetie. com) was born in Yonkers, New York. He is an artist, musician, photographer, poet, and writer. He is currently one of the senior editors for Parabola magazine. above From Yousef Khanfar’s project Humanity at Large, in cooperation with the United Nations. Khanfar writes,“These photos are impressionistic images that show human beings as islands within the waves of the great ocean of humanity, intertwined within the same fabric, stitched with fine threads of race, religion, color, and more.” Shhh by Lee van Laer Don’t say anything just now, But angels are around us, In the silverware, the lines of glasses On the shelf. I wouldn’t speak to them just yet, They are not ready for us. Purity has shaped their sight, And we are shocking to their eyes, at best. Commanded to extend their touch to fallen ones, they are reluctant. Who can blame them? They cut themselves On the sharpness of our minds, And run back bleeding, straight to God, Who gathers up his children, binds their wounds, And listens to their tears. Who owns the stories now? Our words are weapons, Heaven trembles at the sight of our transgressions. Have we no shame, that we send the shining ones Back to the place they came from, Filled with horrors? There will be A reckoning, for all is seen. ...
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