Wild River Review
Connecting People, Places, and Ideas: Story by Story
May 2012
Open Borders

Poetry: Red Night (English Version)

A candle in a long street
A candle in the sleep of houses 
A candle for frightened shops 
A candle for bakeries 
A candle for a journalist trembling in an empty office 
A candle for a fighter 
A candle for a woman doctor over patients 
A candle for the wounded 
A candle for plain talk
A candle for the stairs
A candle for a hotel packed with refugees
A candle for a singer 
A candle for broadcasters in their hideouts
A candle for a bottle of water 
A candle for the air 
A candle for two lovers in a naked flat
A candle for the falling sky 
A candle for the beginning 
A candle for the ending 
A candle for the last communiqué
A candle for conscience 
A candle in my hands.

Saadi Youssef

Saadi Youssef was born in 1934 in Iraq and is considered one of the most important contemporary poets in the Arab world. Following his experience as a political prisoner in Iraq, he has spent most of his life in exile, working as a journalist throughout North Africa and the Middle East. He now lives in London, where he is also a leading translator of English literature into Arabic.

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