Dennis J.Bernstein
Rania’s Ambulance
Rania rides shotgun in the Gaza Strip.
At thirty meters, she watches a sharp-shooter
cut down a stone-thrower with a single round.
The soldier’s bullet teaches the boy a lesson
his mother will never forget.
Dennis J Bernstein is a contributing editor with the San Francisco-based Pacific News Service, and the host/producer of “Flashpoints,” a daily radio news magazine heard on Pacifica radio. Bernstein’s poetry has recently appeared in the Texas Observer, New York Quarterly, The Progressive, ZYZZYVA and Ars Medica.
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