Israeli military admits shooting a 16-year-old
Palestinian girl, calls it “unintentional.”
– CNN, 12 December, 2022.
God said: let there be light and there was light
[ ] said: let there be f(l)ight and there was fire.
Twitter: a daughter. a girl, named. loved.
was shot. nine times.
skull. shattered. haemorrhaged. in a pool.
Reporter: her body. plays three bullets. strays
into three bullets. stays in three bullets. like the myth.
about Lulu. having nine lives.
[ ]: Jana. a casualty. ticks. backwards.
into her name. to reap. as the bullets. are thrown.
with no fingerprints. attached – unintentional.
Lulu: Jana’s cat that she went to save on the roof of their house.
Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi Frontier I, is a Nigerian-Hausa poet, digital artist, and photographer from Bobi. She is an undergraduate student of Medical Laboratory Science at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, winner of the inaugural Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature, winner of the Gimba Suleiman Hassan Gimba ESQ Poetry Prize 2022, a Pushcart and Best of The Net Nominee with works in Strange Horizons, Fiyah Literary Magazine, CutBank Literary Journal, Arc Poetry Magazine, Native Skin, The Drift, Lucent Dreaming, The Deadlands, Agbowó, Omenana Magazine, and elsewhere. She tweets @ZainabBobi.