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Nº 681 Poems

What’s Done Is Done

Anna Keiko · China

What’s done is done.

The unpredictable occurred: The coronavirus.

It’s a storm that could last quite long,

breaking the bloom of branches and blossoms.

Fear is everywhere,

Death is close to everyone.

It’s a spring of broken dreams—

dark clouds, sadness, tears.

The bell has struck the sky.

Haughty humans are falling

in the black hole they have dug.

Anna Keiko, China

Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan

From “Loneliness in the Blood”

Painting by David S. Goodsell, USA
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