Annamaria Ferramosca
Ancora siano i segni / May the signs continue
from OTHER SIGNS, OTHER CIRCLES
by Annamaria Ferramosca
Chelsea Editions, N. Y. , 2009
series Contemporary Italian Poets in Translation
translation of Anamaría Crowe Serrano
MAY THE SIGNS CONTINUE
May the signs on the rocks
continue to unveil time
the profiles of warriors and bison
are running under a tiny sun
the shape of a star
panting
for rain-dazzled kilometres
the profiles of drivers and trucks
submerged in radio waves
not far away
a dolmen vibrates
with stillness of strength
calling for hands and branches
Three stones
- the smallest family saved from the flood -
you could watch them in silence at night
with your ear against the olive tree trunk
feel you are rock lymph voice
the ark docked and fused to the ground
May the signs on the pages
continue to ferry time: far away
strips of sky beating on the waves
flood the screen, join together
Give me words, so, and signs
cry on my shoulder, or laugh
offer me joyful scenes
find me
before the forest is thinned out
before the darkness of error falls
before the last laugh
(the earth’s rotation
is its own continuous laugh, cracking up)
Annamaria Ferramosca © translated by Anamaria Crowe Serrano
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