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

(Marcin) #1
(cont.d)

Words of the dead,
roots of myrtle,
of prune tree, thyme.
Words, remnants
of tools harnesses,
dregs of lamp oil,
oil sludge,
residue, shreds, fragments
of clotted memory,
must deposit,
scrapings from the kneading trough,
shells,
peels, rinds,
scraps, wood shavings, sawdust,
splinters of dreams,
slivers of soul,
gleanings, kernels...
olives fallen outside the net...
Nesting-egg-words,
call me sun.
A different world, a different sun,
a different rooster crow

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