ALDA MERINI (Italy, 1931 - )
LE OSTERIE
l'indagine sorda delle
scorrevolezze di vite.
TRANSLATION
TAVERNS
I love the dark corners
of sleeping taverns
where people reach the excess of singing.
I love cursed and light things,
and deep cups of wine,
where my mind can exult,
level of magic thought.
Too silly is to cry on a lost lover,
much better the bitter steam of wine
unharmed,
much better a drunken genius,
better yeah better
the deaf inquiry into smoothness of grapes.
(translation by M.Ramponi)