By Niall McDevitt
at the Citadel of Jerusalem
built by John Hyrcanus I
there is barbed wire and yellow
weeds
the hooded crow of Jerusalem calls
from the Minaret of the Mosque, raw
muezzin
in a courtyard below the ramparts
are jeeps which say, in English,
POLICE
an invisible deus-ex-machina
hums a military-industrial
hum
– Niall McDevitt contributed this poem to PalestineChronicle.com.