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Carmen Bugan<br />

traduzione <strong>di</strong> Chiara De Luca<br />

Childhood Mirror<br />

On the wall of our living room<br />

facing the verandah<br />

was my childhood mirror.<br />

Twenty years ago this summer<br />

it was a clouded retina<br />

with milky spots, foggy patches.<br />

If I stood in front of it now<br />

would I see where these wrinkles<br />

and this dusting of gray fit<br />

on the face of that girl,<br />

guess the absent reflections into<br />

its foggy spots, milky patches?<br />

Perhaps I would bow to stroke<br />

re-imagined cheeks, hearing<br />

a voice speaking through glass,<br />

“You will live far from here,<br />

I, the mirror, turn into myth<br />

like the old well, the grape-vines<br />

outside the window<br />

which once I also reflected;<br />

you too will become a story.”<br />

Lo specchio dell’infanzia<br />

Sulla parete del nostro soggiorno<br />

<strong>di</strong> fronte alla veranda<br />

c’era lo specchio della mia infanzia.<br />

Venti anni fa quest’estate<br />

era una retina rannuvolata<br />

da macchie lattiginose, chiazze nebbiose.<br />

Se adesso ci restassi in pie<strong>di</strong> davanti<br />

vedrei forse dove queste rughe e questa<br />

caligine <strong>di</strong> grigio si adattavano<br />

al volto <strong>di</strong> quella ragazza,<br />

intuirei i riflessi assenti dentro<br />

le macchie nebbiose, le chiazze lattiginose?<br />

Forse mi chinerei a sfiorare<br />

guance nel ricordo, sentendo<br />

una voce parlare dal vetro,<br />

“Vivrai molto lontano da qua,<br />

io, lo specchio, mutato in mito<br />

come il vecchio pozzo, le viti<br />

fuori dalla finestra<br />

che un tempo anch’io riflettevo:<br />

anche tu <strong>di</strong>venterai una storia.”<br />

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