AN ORDINARY DAY

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #prayersforbrussels, #readwomen, Aleppo, Alessandra Racca, ambivalence, an ordinary day, Ankara, bomb, bombings, brussel attacks, Brussels, death, family, grand bassam, headlines, Hilla, italian, italian women, italian women in translation, life, loss, Maiduguri, media, people, peshawar, poem, poetry, prayers for brussels, suicide attacks, terror, terrorism, translation, women, women writers, write, writing.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Alessandra Racca (1979-), ‘Un giorno qualunque’

In the match
between what we call good
and we despise as evil
today a bomb will make noise
smoke will assault the eyes
scattering shards on screens
and people
a woman’s tears
will stand stillContinue Reading

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