Where a stone dream appears and reveals reality
Photo by: Fabio Guidi
Photo by: Fabio Guidi
Photo by: Fabio Guidi
Photo by: Fabio Guidi Revealed by a wave, like a hard rock
As if it were taking a bite out of heaven
From the east a dark mountain appears
But if you end up there and avoid the veil
Of the light, salty clouds
Like a theatre where a cloth falls to the ground
Then alabaster colors will appear
Violet, golds, greens, ocean blues
Held together by a divine ribbon
And if you just move a little bit closer
Those scents, that heavenly quilt
Of myrtle, lentiscus and rosemary
Will stop you in your tracks and you won’t go elsewhere
Because you’ll have already arrived at that summit
Where beauty is apparent in every angle.
When you understand that this is the place you’re looking for
Photo by: Fabio Guidi
Photo by: Fabio Guidi
Photo by: Fabio Guidi
Photo by: Fabio Guidi
Photo by: Fabio Guidi Beauty mimics sadness
Dancing with force kicks the agony away
Leaving you free to embrace the air there
Lights and winds fill up the space
Voices of seagulls and courageous flights
Do something that makes your soul feel sated
You close your eyes and imagine myths
Monsters, heroes, ancient explorers
With voices, shouts, never-before-heard sounds
Lost in your thoughts, tons of threads come together
And they slip and suddenly obscure your present
Yet with lightness - somehow they don’t exhaust you
But a force comes over you seductively
And seems to say to you: “You’ve arrived”
In the place where both everything and nothing
begin
First 10 tercets of the poem Capraia in Canto by Silvano Panichi