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Iris di Kolibris

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Stefano Leoni<br />

traduzione <strong>di</strong> Gray Sutherland<br />

Sento il respiro corto nella notte,<br />

le <strong>di</strong>ta artiglio, l’arco del ventre teso<br />

pronto alla lotta: <strong>di</strong>fendere e colpire.<br />

Sento il rantolo cupo fra le sete,<br />

il ghiaccio degli occhi e la paura,<br />

la polvere posata sull’altare.<br />

At night I feel short of breath,<br />

I clutch my fingers, tense my stomach<br />

ready for a fight, to defend and strike.<br />

I feel the dark rattle between my longing,<br />

the ice of my eyes and the fear,<br />

the dust placed upon the altar.<br />

Una linea più scura all’altezza delle mani<br />

un corrimano senza <strong>di</strong>mensione<br />

prova <strong>di</strong> passaggi ripetuti e <strong>di</strong> incertezze<br />

un’ombra <strong>di</strong> vissuto smarrito e rimasto<br />

fino alla prossima vernice<br />

lungo le scale e lungo la memoria<br />

come il trucco su inevitabili rughe.<br />

Qui al primo piano sto pallido.<br />

Nel crepuscolo delle mani chiuse<br />

affido il respiro alla vitale incoerenza<br />

Mi piace stare nudo fra i muri<br />

accontentarmi <strong>di</strong> immaginare una ferita<br />

che faccia luce e interrompa la pelle,<br />

che inumi<strong>di</strong>sca le guance, e stringa<br />

in un abbraccio.<br />

Il condominio accu<strong>di</strong>sce le esistenze<br />

ascolto l’urlo delle <strong>di</strong>fferenze<br />

A darker line level with my hands<br />

a handrail of undetermined size<br />

proof of repeated passage, of uncertainty<br />

a shadow of having lived missing and remained<br />

until the next painting<br />

along the stairs, along the memories<br />

like make-up on inevitable wrinkles.<br />

Here on the first floor I am pale.<br />

In the twilight of my closed hands<br />

to vital incoherence I entrust my breath<br />

I like stan<strong>di</strong>ng naked between the walls<br />

to enjoy imagining an injury<br />

that makes light and interrupts the skin<br />

that humi<strong>di</strong>fies my cheeks and fastens<br />

in an embrace<br />

The block of flats sees to the existences<br />

I hear the scream of the <strong>di</strong>fferences<br />

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