Niente etichette, per favore
Franca Alaimo
Non so più dove posare il capo e non ho pensieri, sogni, ricordi che non si porti il vento delle parole che mi attraversano la mente come flussi e riflussi di maree. Come la luna so di appartenere al teatro mobile dell’esistente e non mi aggrappo a niente perché nasco, muoio, migro nelle stagioni come fanno i figli, come fanno i gigli che lasciano i bianchi germogli al lutto dei petali cadenti. Quando mi leggerete, quando verrete, questo io vi chiedo: non mettetemi etichette addosso. Non dite di me che ero in certo modo, perché non era vero che io fossi. Io soltanto ero vera quando sognavo sogni. Ma i sogni non hanno fede, né approdo, Non hanno tempo. Non hanno spazio. Non hanno. Vanno come barche dentro il mare del sonno. Vanno. O stanno sopra il colore mutevole dell’acqua e poi s’inabissano nei fondali e scivolano per millenni sussultando sul loro fantasioso disastro. |
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Franca Alaimo
I no longer know where to lay my head and I have no thoughts, dreams, memories that have not been taken by the wind of words that cross my mind like the flow of tides. Like the moon I know to belong to this mobile theater of existence and I will not grasp anything because I live, die, migrate with seasons like children do, like the iris does that leaves the white sprouts to mourn the falling petals. When you read me, when you come, this is what I ask: do not label me. Do not say I was a certain way because it is not true. I was only real when I dreamed dreams. But dreams have no faith, no standing place, They have no time. They have no space. They do not have. They go like boats in the ocean of sleep. They go. Or they remain above the unsettled color of water until they are swallowed into the depths sliding into a thousand centuries startled by their imaginative disaster.
Translation ©Gianna Patriarca |
Franca Alaimo is an Italian poet, writer and translator. She has published numerous collections of books, poetry and prose, and translations. For information about Franca: http://www.larecherche.it/biografia.asp?Utente=francaalaimo&Tabella=Biografie
Gianna Patriarca was born in Ceprano, Frosinone, Italia, but grew up in Canada where she received a B.A. in English Literature and B.Ed. from York University. Gianna’s poetry has been widely anthologized, her poems have appeared in many journals and magazines.
For information about Gianna:http://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca/english/writers/gpatriarca/gpatriarca.php
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