Rattle’s Poets Respond is an attempt to return poetry to its storytelling roots by providing a space for poets to respond to current events in near real time. I submitted this piece in response to the reports of Aleppo’s fall. This poem owes a huge debt to the reporters who inspired it, in particular this report Bilal Abdul Kareem filed for Al Jazeera.
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Elizabeth DeOrnellas 