Sunday, September 02, 2007

Postcard form Palestine

This poem was posted to assawra by Djamal Benmerad, an Algerian poet (who blogs at euromed.skyrock.com), today.
Carte postale de Palestine

A Ramallah l’enfant
éventré
par une bombe à fragmentation
me regarde les yeux mi-clos
comme pour me dire
« Pourquoi ? »

Djamal Benmerad
Postcard form Palestine

In Ramallah the child
blown apart
by a fragmentation bomb
looks at me with his half-closed eyes
as if to say "Why?"

Djamal Benmerad
Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi

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