“Please will you come and see my war crime?” Of everything, this is what finally broke me - the request small, polite. A father. The body of his dead boy in a coffin-car of cold and bloody dark. This one old man. This son. This love.
“Please will you come and see my war crime?” Of everything, this is what finally broke me - the request small, polite. A father. The body of his dead boy in a coffin-car of cold and bloody dark. This one old man. This son. This love.
Lynda Tavakoli is a poet, novelist and freelance writer whose work has been widely published in the UK, Ireland, the US and the Middle East. She is a contributing essayist for The Belfast Telegraph and Slugger O’Toole and has seen her poetry and prose broadcast on both BBC radio and RTE. Her poems have appeared in The Irish Times and been translated into Farsi and Spanish. Lynda's debut poetry collection The Boiling Point for Jam (Arlen House) has received wide critical acclaim for its raw honesty and authenticity.
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