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perhaps I live for ever
beyond the world’s borders
without realizing

those limits useless talks
and mean chit-chats
laid out as spider webs

perhaps I fly protected

in the blinding light
and at night I cry
cause I did not grasp it

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January 27 was International Holocaust Memorial Day , this poems is my contribution to honor the victims.

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Further on Commemoration (EN/ITA)

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Here is another one of my poems published last week for the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on the Aurelia Josz Milano site. I’m grateful for it and grateful also to those who asked me for a translation of this one as well. Further below is the original text in Italian.

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Where the war airport once was
in Arcore, across from Gilera,
now is an olive trees field,
in Brianza,

they are doubled over, taut, robust,
pained it seems,
drinking from below
overflowing of the fallen.

Suspended –
pressed the note
resembling silences
soothing imagination.

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Dove c’era l’aeroporto di guerra

ad Arcore, davanti alla Gilera,

ora c’è un campo di ulivi,

in Brianza,

 

sono contorti, tesi, forti,

sofferenti sembra,

bevono dal sottosuolo

saturo di caduti.

 

Sospende –

spinge la nota

sembrano dei silenzi

calmano la mente.

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Shoah, Commemoration (EN/ITA)

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January 27th is the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. I received an unexpected email yesterday, one of my poems had been chosen by the jury of the Aurelia Josz Milano Prize to be published on their official and institution sites for the Commemoration. Needless to say I am very moved and touched. The poem is in Italian, here is the translation. Further below is the original text.

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It’s a tight fist
lacking courage to extend,
to clear itself from the shoulder
on which I lay my mouth,
supple, on contracted phalanx.

I lay and I do not bite, I do not growl,
I inhale slowly, I observe
myself, reflected,
motionless
waiting for things to change
around me.

Do not act out, do not use violence,
slowly undo the tissue paper wrapped on my life,
on the untold solitude,
on the tired
nervous,
plodding on
of the crippled.

 

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Il 27 gennaio è è la Giornata Internazionale de La Memoria delle Vittime dell’Olocausto. Ho ricevuto un’email inaspettata ieri che diceva che una delle mie poesie era stata prescelta dalla giuria del Premio Aurelia Josz di Milano e sarebbe stata pubblicata sui siti ufficiali e istituzionali. Non serve dire che sono profondamente emozionata e commossa. Ecco il testo in originale.

 

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E’ un pugno chiuso
che non ha il coraggio di stendersi,
di liberarsi dalla spalla
sul quale appoggio la bocca,
soffice, su falangi contratte.

Appoggio e non addento, non ringhio,
respiro lenta, mi osservo,
riflessa,
restare immobile
attendo che le cose cambino
intorno.

Non agire, non usare violenza,
svolgere con cura la carta velina intorno alla mia vita,
alla solitudine non raccontata,
all’arrancare faticoso,
nervoso,
dello zoppo.

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