Throw birds onto the family tree

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The act of throwing birds onto the family tree seems, on the surface, a peaceful one, perhaps an act of reviving something that has ended—a dead family, for example, or a state of loss that extends across space and time, where the damage inflicted upon its members by war or the loss of a homeland, and the loss of "so much," is difficult to repair, until the "little" that remains becomes all we cling to in "clear darkness to continue walking," as Rasha Al-Qassem says in one of her interviews. And here, as she throws her birds onto the family tree, she continues walking by other paths, having transformed her entire life, with its expansive space of sorrow between homeland and exile, and her passion for writing, into poetry.