LA CLESSIDRA di Adriana Scanferla

THE HOURGLASS (by Adriana Scanferla)

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On an astonished bottom dense
with declining clouds
small boats stand out above
the waves.

Superfluous moans and prolonged anguish
clutter the boat a now uncertain lair
of light illuminated by lightning
flooded by rain and rocked by the wind.

Now that the night is overflowing
suffering too much is inhumane
because the restless expectation of evil
is the worst of all troubles.

A seagull hovers above the water’s edge
where the child digging in the sand
daydreams unconquerable castles
that the perennial flow of the tide
ruthlessly destroys.

So flying on the waves
I invent the elapsed moment
and absorbed by ghosts I neglect
to reset the hourglass for the time
so that the sand of life stays at the bottom
enclosed and inert under glass.

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