Alba Marina (After Malaparte)

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Islands of Salina, Lipari and Vulcano, in the Aeolian archipelago, viewed from Piraino: photo by ninoravi, 2007

and always to this desolate

shore

I come to encounter

you

unveiling

your fragile

light

cuttlebones

on the beach

and dead fish

with innocent round eyes

and rosy lips

already

in the pale conch

trembles

the blue distant

dawn

Islands of Salina, Lipari and Vulcano, in the Aeolian archipelago, viewed from Piraino: photo by ninoravi, 2007

After an original from Curzio Malaparte: Fughe in Prigione, 1936