religion

Dario Bellezza – Dio mi moriva sul mare azzurro / God was dying on the sea

Edward Hopper, The Long Leg, c. 1930 God was dying on the sea blue, on his rowboat where he had asked me to join him.But the jealousy, the normality of the kids pushed me to decline, to shrug my shoulders at the salacious barbs.The scent of the sea filled the boats and you sang in …

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Alda Merini – Sono nata il ventuno a primavera / I was born in spring the twentyone

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Summer offering, 1911 I was born in spring the twentyone not knowing that to be born insane, to open the turfs a tempest could unchain. And thus gentle Proserpina sees rain fall upon the grasses, upon the large gentle grains and always weeps at night. Perhaps it is her prayer. (Transl. by Ercole …

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