Two poems by Massimo Stirneri (Translation from the Italian by Maurizio Brancaleoni)

 
Massimo Stirneri, 32, lives in Perugia. He writes mainly poetry and prose and also creates visual poems. 
He posts all his works both in English and Italian on his blog: http://restlessmuseum.tumblr.com/
His poems have also appeared in some American online journals.

The following two poems come from his collection “Varie”, which won first prize in the prestigious poetry contest “Opera Prima 2017” organized by the website Poesia 2.0 (you can read the book in Italian here).

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like the cavity or the slit of a gutter

you wish you could go out get in uncertain blindfold on the wait

to fit out with lost objects, democratic goals

threshold deities able to bite backwards

in the intact house, under the lips other ailments rotate

from the adhering immanence denied at the finale

three times no, as everything is permitted, like hope

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of courage every title to speak

because I am like a mother woman

more academic unfortunately. genitive

name inspired by the antidote, fear

is not natural, something induced that they create

the guard that he places, they erode the vice at the end

to protect man from cruelty to a minimum extent

for the punishment of transgression, the profound

significance of the allegations, may they unexpected he prevent

the farsightedness of return a unique dedication

hence may they have the ambit of distribution according

- ça va sans dire – to what comes right and in consecutive order, we shall conclude

not even facing extreme situations, pain be feared

on a par «they will burn them, it continues, and we will

match the gravity of the problem «keep anxiety out of Europe

it seems reality, this - I find - version I'll make myself again

vulnerabilities so deep-seated that they become the signature

of collaboration, levers resting on a low fulcrum

of course. it happens though. either-or at the root

doubly to see some of it again

causing sensation to each other resignedly:

simple contract

of adulthood

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