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Carol Ann Duffy<br />

traduzione <strong>di</strong> G. Sensi e A. Sirotti<br />

Premonitions<br />

Premonizioni<br />

We first met when your last breath<br />

cooled in my palm like an egg;<br />

you dead, and a thrush outside<br />

sang it was morning.<br />

I backed out of the room, feeling<br />

the flowers freshen and shine in my arms.<br />

The night before, we met again, to unsay<br />

unbearable farewells, to see<br />

our eyes brighten with re-strung tears.<br />

O I had my sudden wish –<br />

though I barely knew you –<br />

to stand at the door of your house,<br />

feeling my heartbeat calm,<br />

as they carried you in, home, home and healing.<br />

Then slow weeks, removing the wheelchair, the drugs,<br />

the oxygen mask and tank, the commode,<br />

the appointment cards,<br />

until it was summer again<br />

and I saw you open the doors to the grace of your garden.<br />

Strange and beautiful to see<br />

the flowers close to their own premonitions,<br />

the grass sweeten and cool and green<br />

where a bee swooned backwards out of a rose.<br />

There you were,<br />

La prima volta ci incontrammo quando il tuo ultimo<br />

respiro<br />

si raffreddò nel mio palmo come un uovo;<br />

tu morta, e un tordo là fuori<br />

cantava il mattino.<br />

Mi ritirai dalla stanza, e sentii<br />

i fiori riprendersi e splendere nelle mie braccia.<br />

La notte prima ci incontrammo ancora, per ritrattare<br />

ad<strong>di</strong>i insostenibili, per vedere<br />

i nostri occhi illuminarsi <strong>di</strong> nuovi fili <strong>di</strong> lacrime.<br />

Oh, mi venne quel desiderio improvviso –<br />

benché ti conoscessi appena –<br />

stare alla porta <strong>di</strong> casa tua,<br />

sentendo calmarsi i battiti del cuore,<br />

mentre ti portavano dentro, in casa, in casa per guarire.<br />

Poi settimane lente, non più se<strong>di</strong>a a rotelle, me<strong>di</strong>cine,<br />

maschera d’ossigeno e bombola, la comoda,<br />

gli appuntamenti,<br />

finché non fu <strong>di</strong> nuovo estate<br />

e ti vi<strong>di</strong> aprire le porte alla grazia del tuo giar<strong>di</strong>no.<br />

Strano e bello vedere<br />

i fiori chiudersi alle loro premonizioni,<br />

l’erba farsi dolce e fresca e verde<br />

dove un’ape estasiata usciva da una rosa.<br />

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