• Poetry - Poetry by Andrew Hidas

    A Prayer for Leonard Cohen, and That Syrian Girl Without a Hospital

    nothing new, nothing to see, just another mound of rubble and still the dogs zig and zag over the cold stones, their handlers holding tight, awaiting a pause and deeper inhalation now the rescuers kneel removing stone by careful stone, the veil of destruction lifted from the face of a girl awake, blinking, inert, four days entombed but alive, alive oh! HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH (he sang of things above and below, the eternal fusion, the fast and slow) (the recurrent broken hallelujahs) a man lifts her, this perhaps 4-year-old, the christ child in swaddling clothes suffering the sins of the…