you must surely know justice / is not this -/ the immolation of schoolgirls / blown heavenward

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Killed - 168 schoolgirls in Minab (by Ryan Malmberg)

To fathers who sit in war-rooms

who mark foreign cities in red

who return home to hug their daughters

in sundown light

Surely as you arrive

and see her small, bright body

her urgent mouth shouting, Daddy, Pappa

as she leaps into the safety of your arms

surely you know, your must know

the daughters of Minab did the same

And as her scent settles in your throat

you must surely know justice

is not this -

the immolation of schoolgirls

blown heavenward

So dear father - when she wakes

speak to her

speak the meaning of their names:

bright star, sweet rain, wild rose

gift of God, spring

And at daybreak, tell her

how our mouths burn

with their bones

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Let us remember: The bombing of the school in Minab, Iran, February 26, 2026 was the work of an American made, American launched Tomahawk missile. The United States has not taken any responsibility for this terrible war crime which inaugurated the war on Iran.

(Article changed on Aug 22, 2026 at 6:48 PM EDT)

Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.