Deborah Woodard


The Dragonfly
by Amelia Rosselli, translated by Giuseppe Leporace and Deborah Woodard

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The inferno of light was love. The inferno of love
was sex. The inferno of the world was oblivion to the
simple rules of life: stamped papers and a simple
protocol. Four beds face down on the bed four
dead friends with a gun in hand four false notes
of the piano that are cause for hope.


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If the soul loses its gift then it loses ground, if hell
is a sure thing, then the Abyssinia of my soul is reborn.
If dawn resolves to die, then the river of our
tears widens and God’s voice remains contemplated.
If the soul is the reluctance of the senses, then love is a
science which falls to the first comer. If the soul sells its
baggage then ink is a paradise. If the soul
comes down from its perch, the earth dies.

I contemplate the singing birds but my soul is
sad as a soldier at war.

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