Valerio Magrelli Biography

TRAIN-COMET

The claimant's request is based on the premise that, following
passage of a freight train, a fire spread from the nearby tracks to
his own adjoining property, destroying his crops. He further claims
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A steel comb uncurls
the notes, swirls
a sweet music of cotton
candy. Like a charmer
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As you rest beside me, I lean over
and by your face I catch hold of sleep
the way one wick
catches hold of another wick's flame.
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The pen slides
down the groin of the page,
while writing collects itself in silence.
This page has the geometry
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Let us not adopt those spectacles that sadly enclose
a few people in a dark center,
keeping them fearful and immobile in silence and inertia.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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