Pina Piccolo

Today is the first day that the town where I live, in Emilia Romagna, has

Molti avranno sentito di quella volta che Ferlinghetti venne arrestato a Brescia. Diversi anni fa

Here I am remembering  an old poem, written in the 1980’s, (inspired by Natalia Ginzburg’s

  Maybe, in your contemporary parlance, I should demand that you really SEE ME, although,

  Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, Nor hell a fury, like

The serendipity of it all…  how I came to be ‘in touch’, to find myself

Here I am chilling, perched on top of a magenta pole, at the edge of

From “Iraq 1991: Dress Rehearsal for Imperial Demise”, section in Avatar on the Borderlands, unpublished

Prima pubblicazione in Versante ripido, 1 novembre 2015, presente nella raccolta I canti dell’Interregno, Lebeg

Dido, my sister Release me, Dido, from your space of sorrow Release me, A beggar