When will you count the wrinkles
that run along the body
as in a lunar geography
and you will not know how to detach yourself
from what you got
and from what you have lost
then you will remember that I loved you
in unbearable breaths
and complicated waiting
of an uncertain writing
dark the dance beyond the consensus
dark the love you carry
dark the smell of the counter line
proceed with your feet up
and bizarre you fall back if then
I still don’t know how to say goodbye
what’s the difference
Giorgio Anastasia (Italy, 1972) from Fondazione collection – translation from Italian by Slow Words
The cover picture author is the student photographer Valeria Gentile who took part to a workshop lead by Diana Marrone (Slow Words) at CFI (Centro Fotografia Indipendente) founded by Mario Spada, Biagio Ippolito and Luca Anzani in Naples – an unconventional photography school where Slow Words and Fondazione editorial team partnered to issue a booklet of postcards in which the students freely chose to associate their photo projects to Anastasia’s poems.