Luigia Sorrentino translated by Alfred Corn: "We had gone up the mountain" ("eravamo saliti sul monte")

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We had gone up the mountain
Toward the monumental face of a temple
Broken in pieces
After the battle all had been swept away
Death had opened itself up
One of us had left the ground behind
We stopped looking for anything
In the woodland twilight.

Someone will, as we did, see
With renewed clarity
The fallen hero in those stones.

 

Transl. by Alfred Corn

 

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eravamo saliti sul monte
verso la colossale figura del tempio
ridotto in macerie
dopo la terribile lotta tutto era svanito
la morte si era aperta
uno di noi aveva abbandonato il suolo
non cercavamo più nulla
nell’azzurra penombra del bosco

qualcuno vedrà come noi
l’eroe caduto nella pietra
in fresca chiarezza

(Olimpia di Luigia Sorrentino. Novara: Interlinea, 2013, p. 93)

 

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