From Olive Trees (a modified excerpt)

எங்கள் சமூகம், 2T4 Fitz

We buy that olive oil

to cook, to eat, to live,

for taste, for joy, for life.

While the olive trees,

in relation with a people

and a people in relation with the olive trees,

are under _word has been censored_.

This is a people’s history.

Stories of children, families, communities,

Of relationality,

Of songs,

Of recipes, 

Embedded in the plant beings

Of those lands,

And of those waters.

And there, they will always be.

-In memory of Bilal Saleh. He was harvesting olives.