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Harry Ricketts<br />

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

The words<br />

Le parole<br />

The words seem to come<br />

from so far inside they don’t<br />

seem coloured by you at all.<br />

Your head roars with silence.<br />

You love that silence<br />

more than anything.<br />

How do the words reach<br />

each other? Telepathy,<br />

cellphone, remote control?<br />

No, they play grandmother’s<br />

footsteps, smee, Chinese<br />

whispers, blind man’s buff.<br />

Le parole sembrano arrivare<br />

da tanto lontano dentro che non pare<br />

possa averle tu in alcun modo colorate.<br />

La testa ti romba <strong>di</strong> silenzio.<br />

Sopra ogni cosa<br />

ami quel silenzio.<br />

Come fanno a raggiungersi<br />

l’un l’altra le parole? Telepatia,<br />

telecomando, cellulare?<br />

No: giocano a un, due, tre<br />

stella, nascon<strong>di</strong>no, a passaparola,<br />

moscacieca.<br />

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