The Nakba commemorates the massacres and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land in 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their land by Zionist militia groups. Many fled to Gaza. Over the last 8 months in Gaza, over 200,000 people have been displaced. Many for the tenth time. The Nakba never ended. Today it is accelerating.

I’ve never been in the presence of a blossoming corpse flower. I’ve never breathed in the scent. But through my computer screen I could experience Putricia’s soft velvety folds, her firm but wilting spike. I could feel close to her.