patient weavers

giovanna gaiani

Urgency of relation becoming word,
longed-for communication becoming language and then cry.
A heart that to unfold spins around eternally mortal instruments:
such are they, sounds.

Tongues, universal mystery,
provided for each one according to birth
granted to the intrepid weavers of bonds
women sowing musical sweetness, alluring passions, conceptual secrets
torn from each at death
sisters forever quarreling but united
formed from a single father:
the journey
that guides soul against soul
man towards man
heart within heart.

Urgency of relation becoming word,
longed-for communication becoming language and then cry.
A heart that to unfold spins around eternally mortal instruments:
such are they, sounds.

To you, patient weaver
my invitation:
that diligent and curious your world
may lead to the forbidden encounter.
The word be no longer shrouded

Giovanna Gaiani was born on 21 September, 1983 in Cento (FE), where she still lives. In 2002 she graduated from a linguistic secondary school and enrolled in the Faculty of foreign languages and literatures at the University of Bologna, where she took a B.A. in Arabic and German in 2007. She is now continuing her studies towards an M.A. degree in Italian language and literature for foreigners in the same university. She is involved in problems concerning immigration, and for several years has worked with the association ‘Mondo’ di Cento (FE), teaching Italian to foreign adults. She has always passionately loved reading and writing, and she writes both fiction and poetry. She loves languages, travelling, and she feels she is a citizen of the world.