For the Mothers of Gaza

Today is Mother's day in the Arab World... its a good day for a beautiful poem by the almost infallible Mahmud Darwich

The poem “For My Mother” seemed to me a little more difficult to translate; it seemed to reveal without any regard for my feelings the limitations of my talent…

I am sure there are more professional ways to translate poetry, ways that, in cases such as this one, would allow for the finding of good substitutes for images which, outside the Arabic language…