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the eyes of Omayra Sánchez in the San Pietro Square
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the eyes of Omayra Sánchez in the San Pietro Square

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September 25, 2024
San Pietro, Venice, Childe Hassam, 1883

Clara Burghelea has published two poetry collections: The Flavor of…

the pope is praying on his own in the San Pietro Square the eyes of Omayra Sánchez, the only spectators their sclera darker than the oceans’ abyss as their foundation is crumbling under the little girl’s body stuck in lava and mud don’t forget to get it all on tape, cameramen, tighten your nostrils a little soon it will all be over the marine snow will fall anew over our wrinkled bodies

Original poem by Ioana Vintila, translated from Romanian by Clara Burghelea.

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Clara Burghelea has published two poetry collections: The Flavor of the Other (Dos Madres Press 2020) and Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press 2021). Her poems and translations have been published in Goalf Coast, Delos, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. She is the Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation and a third-year PhD student in Literature at University of Texas at Dallas.

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