Israeli poet Agi Mishol on the News Hour

Agi Mishol read for us the beginning of her poem about an incident, involving a young Palestinian woman named Andaleeb Takatka who blew up herself and six others in a bakery.

"You are only twenty
and your first pregnancy is a bomb.
Under your broad skirt you are pregnant with dynamite
and metal shavings. This is how you walk in the market,
ticking among the people, you, Andaleeb Takatka.
Someone loosened the screws in your head
and launched you toward the city;
even though you come from Bethlehem,
the House of Bread, you chose a bakery.
And there you pulled the trigger out of yourself,
and together with the Sabbath loaves,
sesame and poppy seed,
you flung yourself into the sky"