Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

(Marcin) #1
Dismemory

All the world’s beauty heaves and dips:
do or not to do, press, off course
jack in the box, toy trains and seahorse
now yes then no, give take zap
woodpecker pecked, careening zoom
boom bah jumps over the moon ─ yippee!
take a big dip in bed
ding donging across
snow silence of crumbling sky
this very verse sting song
syllables kicking butt on a screesaw
the rhyme a wave battering sands
one counterweight of nil
neither to live nor to die
time of no happenstance
nothing sentient
nothing perceived...
(Translated by Justin Vitiello)

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