THE DRUM *
Jena Schwartz
A drum in the rubble. A rescue worker. Music arises amidst devastation through a tiny speaker on a tiny screen on the other side of a tiny planet.
Watch this man playing this drum. See his face, hands moving steadily, somehow knowing what to do.
Oh, irrepressible urge to express what resides within, would that we could alchemize grief into milk through the fertile body, salvaged from the ruins.
* inspired by a video posted by Marine Cohen on Instagram on June 24, 2025 showing a rescue worker, Yossi Browdy, playing a pantam drum after an Iranian missile strike: www. instagram. com / p / DLSe20yNYlr
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