KOREAN EXPATRIATE  LITERATURE (  해외문학)  제21호 2017

AN EVENING SKY

. . . A slash of Blue! A sweep of Gray!

Some scarlet patches—on the way—

Compose an evening sky...

                                                    — Emily Dickinson

Lidia Chiarelli

So sweet was

the scent of those evenings

when

our steps invented long distance routes

in the summer gardens

when

slowly the lights were lit

and competing with the moons and the stars

formed parabolas of light

on the opaque stones of the paths.

Then, life

just begun

seemed to reveal

—just for us—

a sky of unreal colours.

Countless images

( fragments of old memories )

that

today

re-create and break

in the weary kaleidoscope

of the mind.

2012 in memory of my father, Guido Chiarelli

(Il Meleto di Guido Gozzano Award 2012)

Translated by the author

From Immagine & Poesia (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2013)

저녁하늘

…베어내는 파랑! 쓸어가는  회색!

여기저기  붉은 조각—오는  중—

이 모두가  저녁하늘이라네..

                                                                                   —에밀리 디킨슨

리디아 치아렐리