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In the Metaxy of Poetry:
Poems from the collection
APACHE TEAR
(1981-1987)
Translated by
Daniela Ripetti - Pacchini
Double Trance
(The return of Cathy)
(The return of Cathy)
It’s getting bright
and slowly
when your five senses sleep
and the body has lost its contacts..
its weights...
you will feel me
like shining air
moon rock whispering
in your dulled ears
the Mysteries
will come from all the lands
as the ground disappears
from under your feet..
they will touch you
with infinite touch
on your thumbs asleep..
to show you beyond lands..
my senses...your senses
reborn...
and slowly
when your five senses sleep
and the body has lost its contacts..
its weights...
you will feel me
like shining air
moon rock whispering
in your dulled ears
the Mysteries
will come from all the lands
as the ground disappears
from under your feet..
they will touch you
with infinite touch
on your thumbs asleep..
to show you beyond lands..
my senses...your senses
reborn...
Metaphysical Moors
No longer a land..
nor a dwelling place..
if not the green..
the rock..
or the desert centre
the moor..of rose heather.
I do not know
when I too left a homeland
when I found the s-word..
We were made errant
like clouds and stars..
wandering Heathcliffs
exiled..from exile..
While there is the Infinite
While there is the Infinite
there is a way...
and having a mere drop of it in the hands
there shines in it the vast unknown face
of many doors..heavens..and finitudes...
This is the grace granted to us
though a grace a little frowning
and tired..though in a single breath
it fades....
While there is the infinite
there is a door... and the Desire stays..
on the threshold...
* These poems have been published in "Quinta Generazione"
N.4 - 1992 . Ed. Forum/Quinta Generazione.
* Links to my three YouTube videos based on these three poems.
The videos have subtitles in both English and Italian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqLItVeSl1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3nzx_ARGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l3qWQ8FkfY
© Daniela Ripetti Pacchini
