Gianfranco Savino: March 2022 Poet of the Month
Editor’s Note: Italian version of the poem follows the English version.
A landscape
Right after the storm
the autumn color of the grass is sending sparks.
Oak leaves have already filled the driveway.
And in the dark eyes of those kids,
wet with torrential water, the cables
that an hour before brought the electricity
are now a dark tangle of snakes,
a black magic convulsing between the pools of sun.
Paesaggio
Subito dopo il temporale
il colore autunnale dell’erba
manda scintille. Le foglie
di leccio già riempiono il vialetto.
Negli occhi scuri di un bambino
bagnato d’acqua torrenziale,
i cavi che un’ora prima portavano corrente
sono ora un groviglio oscuro di serpenti,
nera magia tra le chiazze convulse del sole.
Gianfranco Savino is an Italian author born in Naples, who is a published philosopher especially active in the field of political theory but with a strong passion for theatre and poetry.