After decades of life,
I feel I have found
what to do in these walls,
sitting back undignified
...
They made a beautiful
straight solid beam
of his trunk that grew
white flowers in spring.
...
A chicken fence in the dusty ground
is still standing there as a bound
beyond the hill, under the sun
where all my life befell undone
...
I was born in Agerola, a mountain village on the outskirts of Naples. I left school at sixteen years old and lived in England for five years. Since 1999 I live and write in the Netherland near my beloved Amsterdam.)
It
You cannot tell
it
to anybody
it
is your secret.
You may find
it
hard to accept.
It
holds you.
You may try
to fight
it.
Secretly,
It
waits for you
to be alone,
then
it starts
pounding.
It
carries on
relentlessly.
It
drives you mad.
It
beats you
up-down
left-right
until
it
kills you
and
nobody
knows
it.