firstfullmoon:Noor Hindi, “A Home,” in DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.[text ID:
firstfullmoon:Noor Hindi, “A Home,” in DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.[text ID: The breakfast table is my family’s connection to Palestine, to home, to Jordan. Eating is sacred—dipping pita bread into olive oil, an act of love. / Saturday mornings, you’ll find pita bread atop the stove, my mother’s hands flipping each loaf above the flames, her warmth filling us. / The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our / tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams. / How it—] -- source link