A Winter Night in the City

     Antonella Anedda      

It has stopped raining now. From the window the world is in drops:
a face without nose, eyes, lips. Only these minute tears
over trees and houses...

Translated from the Italian by Gabrielle Poole.

Ora ha smesso di piovere. Dalla finestra il mondo è a gocce:
un viso senza naso, occhi, labbra. Solo queste minute lacrime
sugli alberi e le case...

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