“Letters in a Shell” and “The Alarm”
A lyric in free verse, I wrote Letters in a Shell in June 2025 as an emotional response to the ongoing and escalating suppression of Palestine activism observed on Western University’s campus, in London, and on social media. Letters in a Shell The body is a shell It speaks, sometimes it moves, Across imaginary lines. It arrives and it departs. The body is a shell Sometimes it’s recognized, Sometimes handled. There are times this is unwanted. At such times this is unjust. The body is a shell, but a hand can write a letter, on paper or on glass. The…
