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a collection of poems

Gutta cavat lapidem

31/7/2011

 
raccolgo i filamenti del tempo complesso
​
di chi chiude e si assopisce
coloro che si sforzano di non capire
di quelli che sempre ancora edificano vite
definitive su sfortunate assi intrise
di superstiziosa avversità

formo una treccia continua
pregando il dio dell'ordine
biondo lungo, biondo corto
contiene l'uno oro, l'altro cenere
e due teste formano la storia
sulla mia, tonda come il mondo

casuali promesse di treni da dietro alle coste
fendono vigne e mulattiere precari parcheggi

non l'ho scelta ma è mia
l'ombra della via più stretta
discreta toga tenda velo sipario
sulle cosce colonne del desiderio ch'è più su

ma a mezzogiorno se le mamme e il tempo consentono
un raggio di sole c'è per tutti

e dopo si ferma la città, fuori
si nutre dentro, e poi riposa
paga di quest'ultima tacca ancora
rubata al bottino dei giorni
caduti dal paniere di Cristo che la Madonna
ha scrollato per le nostre suppliche

sullo sfondo del rullo delle gomme sui selci
piccola e sparuta una vecchia forma con la scopa
linee di polvere sull'asfalto
e riassetta le lancette del tempo
sulla meridiana del nostro cuore

domani, qui, ma chi lo sa?
ancora un giorno di tribolazione
nel punto che gli dei vollero
fosse il più amato della terra




Premio Giorgio Belli 2012 quarto classificato ex aequo, pubblicato in Antologia Premio di Poesia Giorgio Belli, Foedus Ars 2012

​Contenuto in Alibi

A Trainman's Dream

12/7/2011

 
By that gate I stood
disappearing
yarn after yarn
snagged by any traveller gliding by
adding to the fray
as I question their direction


All exists in queues
and we do not like to wander
beyond the real in horizontal lines


We try to form clusters
who feed off candlelight
as we learn our history

Vespers tidy up the pattern
peeling off my face,
a thread in the breeze
I offer least resistance

The last word I'll say
is the hopeful fact
that my old city is made of water
flowing over the smoothest of stones

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