stracci sulle ginocchia Giancarlo Majorino . stracci sulle ginocchia forse altri si lanciano globale s’inerpica e soffoca gruppo di terramare dire dirci il gremito? o non conviene scrivere e se distingui a fatica c’è un carro con abiti o sono esseri con il cranio inghiottito stupida linguetta smarrita nella polvere nel brusio diciamoci come sbattono i corpi diciamocelo adesso gruppi fitti si accostano e si scostano la cute nell’abitacolo continuerà a frusciare resti di venti diurni s’avviano nell’abitacolo da qualche parte si rimuovono s’avviano un frullo d’ali barrette sulla rena squittiscono . mentre uno scafo scende nell’acqua lustra buia con un dorso enorme di squalo balena e un altro più breve con buchi qua e là nella pece a tratti luminosa sotto la luna |
rags on knees Giancarlo Majorino . rags on knees maybe others dive overboard global it clambers and suffocates group of marlstone to tell tell us the horde? or better perhaps to write of it and though barely distinguishable there’s a cart with clothes or beings their skull swallowed up stupid tongue lost in the dust in the bustle let’s tell ourselves about how the bodies collide let’s tell ourselves about it now groups packed tight move closer and move apart the skin in the cabin will continue to rustle remains of diurnal winds starting up in the cabin somewhere they will displace starting up in a flutter of wings rods on the silt squeak . as a boat is lowered into the water glossy dark with an enormous spine of a whale shark and another one smaller with holes here and there in the pitch at times luminous under the moon . Translation ©Matilda Colarossi |
Giancarlo Majorino was born in Milan. He wrote his first work “La capitale del Nord”, between from 1953 to 1959, which he published with Schwarz Ed..
This poem was published in 2001 and is from the collection “Gli alleati viaggiatori” (Allied travellers) and deals with, as do the others in this book, the subject of immigration.
The painting, Huagong Boat, is by Cheng Conglin.
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