After a very long pause, I've prepared two poems for today, for this Easter day, 2026. Easter is usually symbolised by a dove carrying an olive branch in sign of peace. I have searched the skies; there are no doves carrying olive branches to be seen, just blazing skies, and what I imagine to be…Read more Trilussa: La guerra / War & L’Ape / The Bee
Poetry
Vincenzo Cardarelli: Ritorno al mio paese / Return to my town
"nothing has changed but the living / who usurp the place of the dead" The trials of #war - Peace now for #G*za RITORNO AL MIO PAESE Vincenzo Cardarelli O memoria spietata, che hai tu fatto del mio paese? Un paese di spettri dove nulla è mutato fuor che i vivi che usurpano…Read more Vincenzo Cardarelli: Ritorno al mio paese / Return to my town
Umberto Saba: Uccelli / Birds
Uccelli Umberto Saba L’alata genia che adoro – ce n’è al mondo tanta! – varia d’usi e costumi, ebbra di vita, si sveglia e canta.Birds Umberto Saba The winged genus I adore–so many exist in the world! – varied in customs and ways, drunk on life, wakes up and sings. …Read more Umberto Saba: Uccelli / Birds
Trilussa: Mania de persecuzzione / Perrsecution complex
What is about dictators that make them so touchy, so paranoid? It’s as if, for them, their own shadows are out to get them; so they ban, censor, limit, arrest, deport, destroy…because it's very hard to be on the wrong side of history: people may notice. This is the first thing I thought of when…Read more Trilussa: Mania de persecuzzione / Perrsecution complex
parallel texts: words reflected 