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You know, without my telling you, how sometimes
A word or name eludes you, and you seek it
Through running ghosts of shadow,—leaping at it,
Lying in wait for it to spring upon it,
Spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound:
Until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest,
You hear it, see it flash among the branches,
And scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it—
Well, it was so I followed down this poem,
Glimpsing a face in darkness, hearing a cry,
Remembering days forgotten, moods exhausted,
Corners in sunlight, puddles reflecting stars—;
Until, of a sudden, and least of all suspected,
The thing resolved itself: and I remembered
This poem.
Y Daubmir





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Ghiacciai

I ghiacciai
dell'anima
si sfaldano
liquidi
al palpito
di un gorgheggio
primaverile
Y Daubmir .





Guizzo di balena - Humpback breaking
Diving Deep

I leapt, and my steep body flashed
Once, in the sun.
Dark drew all the light from my eyes.
Like a man who explores his death
By the pull of his slowmoving deltoids,
I hung head down in the cold,
Wide-eyed, contained, and alone
Among the weeds,
And my fingertips turned into stone
From clutching immovable blackness.
Time after time I leapt upward
Exploding in breath, and fell back
To wait for the lake to reflect
At the risen moon with such power
That my steps on the light of the ripples
Might be sustained.
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RITARDO

Ci sono cose peggiori
Dell’esser soli
Ma spesso passano
Anni
Per capirlo
E più spesso
Quando l’hai capito
È troppo tardi
E non c’è cosa peggiore
Del troppo tardi.

Io voglio essere
In anticipo.
Y Daubmir .





INCOGNITA


Il mio costante
Desiderio di
Volare
È simile al
Mio inquieto
Ricordare
I sogni
Che ho fatto
Senza poter
Dormire



My eternal wish
To soar and fly
Is similar to
My disquiet
To remember
The dreams
I dreamt
Without
Knowing why


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Roma storica
INIZIO

Grida di sfida
Si alzano dall’Aventino
In una planata di storni
E spezzano il cielo azzurro
Echeggiando increspature di ricordi
Per poi cader veloci dall’aria
I frammenti di questa delicata immagine
Vibrano sui cavi a schiera
E tremano dolcemente al vento
Come una sonnolenta corda
Di pianoforte
Il sangue ora si espande
E allaga il silenzio ansioso
Con la paura che il cuore acceleri
E cominci a martellare il petto
Sordo e insistente come una campana nascosta
Sotto una cupola latina -
Allora la vita dovrà proprio
Cominciare.
Y Daubmir .





stepping over
EBBING

The dead, we say, are the departed. They
pass on, they pass away, they leave behind
family, friends, the whole of humankind—
They have gone on before. Or so we say.

But could it be the opposite is true?
Now, as I stand here in the graveled drive
at moonrise, unaccountably alive,
I have the sense that it is we, not you,

who are departing, spun at breakneck speed
through space and time, while you stay where you are—
intimate of dark matter and bright star—
and watch the brilliant, faithless world recede.
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parole nivee
QASAR

Salta
Nello spazio
Dei tuoi pensieri
E afferra
La scintilla
Che ti
Attizzi
Il fuoco
Y Daubmir .





Estivo
CREATURES

Creatures perish
in the darkened
blind of quest,
knowing intimations.

Guessing and dreaming
I pursue the real,
my face turned toward the sky
whispering secrets to the heavens.

And while I remain
with seeking creatures
in every turn of time
abiding in their condition
every instant past
I perceive their aching breath.
Y Daubmir .





RESIDUE
Residui riflessi

Sbiadita memoria di me,
Poeta spento dagli strani umori,
Rimane all'albergo Exedra di Roma,
Tra gli effluvi dei gelsomini,
E l'illusoria profondità degli specchi


Jasmines - Gelsomini
Some limited and waning memory of me,
Poet incarnate of the wistful mood,
Persists at the hotel Exedra in Rome,
Amongst the effusive jasmines
And in the illusory depth of mirrors.



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Acqua Verde
LA MUSIQUE ADOUCIT

The melody
of uncharted algorithms
leading
to my torment,
aspires to placate
the void
of my vacant
mind.

Why do you
return
to clutch my heart
like
an obsessive tide?
Y Daubmir .





Paralysis
PARALYSIS

The brain whirls in a fit
The brain is not manifest
I have gone to that place
Of tremor
And then rigidity
Where gray cells
Are slapped
Brutally -
A little solo act
With a stroke
When my heart also
Broke

Y Daubmir


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