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FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2011

Poetry

Ancestors
- R. Baldasty
Beloved Albatross
- D. Bastianutti
From Trã Bãn
- K. Cain
The Current (La Corrente)
- L. Calio
Down with the King
- M. Cirelli
May Mass – 1957
- L. Dolan
America
- G. Fagiani
Persephone’s Devotion to Her Mother
- M. Fazio
Bastardu
- V. Fazio
Christmas
- D. Festa
L’Amour, L’Amour on Summer Afternoons (L’Amour, L’Amour D’estati Filuvespiri)
- M. Frasca
Sgrìob
- S. Jackson
Sirocco
- W.F. Lantry
Little Swift
- R. León
Since You Asked
- M. Lisella
Dublin 2010
- V. Maher
39 Fifth Avenue
- C. Matos
Sunrise in Sicily
- A. O’Donnell
Watching Monzú at Work
- F. Polizzi
L’incontru (Rendezvous)
- N. Provenzano
Propriu Quannu Sta Scurannu (When the Day Is Almost Over)
- N. Provenzano
Bones (Le Ossa)
- D. Pucciani
Things
- E. Swados
Mount Etna
- G. Syverson
Poet Jack Foley Says, “We’re Not Writing for Eternity
- J. Wells
Lord of Winter
- A. Zanelli


Louisa Calio
(Translated by Elisabetta Marino)


The Current / La Corrente

Wet and luscious as a snake it comes
to make your body whole
the million thoughts
dissipate
and a calm current flows at a steady rate.
Nature,
lush and abounding as the five scents of Eve
passes through you and through me.
Desert sands, salt seas
even we
passing.

      

Seducente e umida come un serpente viene
per renderti completo il corpo
milioni di pensieri
si sperdono
e una corrente calma scorre a cadenza costante.
La Natura,
rigogliosa e ricca come le cinque essenze di Eva
passa attraverso te, attraverso me.
Sabbie di deserto, mari di sale
anche noi
passando.