Antonella Anedda Biography

Before supper, before the lamps warm the beds and the trees's foliage absorbs the dark and the night's abandoned. In the curtailed space of dusk whole seasons pass by unrecognized. Then the sky's freighted with clouds and air-currents drum at brambles and stumps.
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To unearth the reason for a verb
because the truth is it's not time yet
and we don't know whether to rush forwards or take flight.
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This language has no innocence
- listen to how speeches break up
as if also here there were a war
a different war but war
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to Nathan Zach


These too are war poems
composed while it rages, not far off, not nearby,
seated askew at a table lit by lamps
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It's a blessing to be as far away as you are
the most innocent among distant things:
table-niche and apple
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