
To P
By Gabriella Garofalo
Don’t give in, soul, the grass is shivering
As births are gorging the sky’s shades,
The moon, the comets get ready to bolt out-
And where are now the icy wrath of dead,
Your loss, those lost omens from fathers,
No places to be seen, only the bush
Where the wind flows, and a bit of green from her shelter-
But what can they do, limbs or words
Against snarly shades, or stares freezing them,
Souls who dream that loss can breathe light,
So blind to a shady green deal-
Look, drop it now, that sham breather
When your sky drifts away, a dispersal of souls
To shelters of silence, among raving stares
From the dusk, yet the moon is cheering him up,
‘You’ll never go blind, my artist’,
Then with crooked words, and twisted smiles, she quits-
Not fields nor prophets, not water nor daffs for you,
You can’t join them, nor can you steer your desert,
The names you failed when stroking mirrors,
Hints of hope so high on joints, or lost beggars
Whenever a die-hard hunger reshapes
Her colours at night.

Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at six and is the author of these books “Lo sguardo di Orfeo”; “L’inverno di vetro”; “Di altre stelle polari”; “Casa di erba”; “Blue Branches”; “A Blue Soul”, “After The Blue Rush”.