Massimo Maggiari
The Celestial City
Distant and vague
to the blue skies
waters fly
to the expanses of the world
to the eddies of mud and rock
to the sources of light and bodies
Waters fly
from the flowing lights of the Great Bear.
Waters
to my coral heart
Waters
to my forty – two dogs
to my crystal sled
to the mountains with a thousand peaks
Waters, waters flying
in the stellar passes of the nocturnal sky.
Warriors of the Bear,
forward! Do not tarry!
Sing Amundsen's exploits fervently
to the maiden of the fjord.
Rise on thin waters
free from the land of glass
towards the celestial city
beyond the pyre, beyond the sleep
of infinite days.
Swarm far away
in the dances of the flames
on the mountain summits
Fly between moon and sun
Inhabit the sky, walk the earth.
And at night,
at night snow down
like souls
on the crevasses of autumn.
Translated by Laura Stortoni-Hager
Page(s) 75-76
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