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Language   It hardened like amber Trapping the meaning And the silence And the intonation

From the unpublished collection “Avatars from the Borderlands”.   It shall all be recorded In

  Mi sono sentita in dovere di tradurre una selezione di poesia proveniente dall’Ucraina, testi

  What did that nameless Angel really say That Monday When the women approached the

Riproposta nel giorno in cui il generale russo Alexander Dvornikov noto come ‘il macellaio di

Be callous, grow a callus Forge a shield around your heart   Don’t let those

Clutching at Life When the alleged dead shall rise to haunt us in the deep

E’ dal mio cane che ho appreso la gioia                                                   A Oliver, sperando in

Their Screams Live in My Ear     Sixty years later, he said “Then I

The following are two poems I wrote around 2017-8 in the thick of  Assad’s war