between the fingers
tiziana altea
between the fingers
the black of the world
smiles in the mouth
that steal gold.
Nomadic feet
gypsy voices to the sky
– sovereign sadness --.
And it is our fear.
Dreams are rags
thieves and workers
of my happiness.
Tomorrow is not time,
we must escape.
Tiziana Altea was born in Sassari in 1971, and has lived in Milan since 1975. She has a degree in Modern Letters, with a specialization in esthetics and a dissertation on the esthetics of silence in Antonia Pozzi. Currently she in participating in the project '"Pozzi Year", dedicated to the Milanese poet in the 70th year of her death, and in this context she has created a website.
translated by Brenda Porster