La mamma

di Ada Negri

.

.
La mamma non è più giovane
e ha già molti capelli
grigi: ma la sua voce è squillante
di ragazzetta e tutto in lei è chiaro
ed energico: il passo, il movimento,
lo sguardo, la parola

 Mother

by Ada Negri

.

Mother is no longer young
and much of her hair
is grey: but her voice is as bubbly
as a young girl’s and everything about her
is light and energetic: her step, her movements
her eyes, her words

.
Translation by ©Matilda Colarossi

Other works by Ada Negri are found here on paralleltexts. M.C.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.