Caproni, Giorgio: Everything (Tutto in English)
Tutto (Italian)Hanno bruciato tutto. Tutto. Anche, Illesa, La gente Bruciata anche l’osteria. Tutto. Non resta nemmeno il lutto,
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Everything (English)They have burned everything. The church. The school. The town hall.
Everything. Even the grass.
Even, with the graveyard, the slim smoke from the stack of the furnace.
Sage, sand and water moving; water trembling at my voice, reflecting the sadness of a scream from nowhere.
You do not know where people may be.
The tavern, also burned. The mail train too.
Everything.
Not even mourning is left, in the grey, to wait for the last (nonexistent) word.
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