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​Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
​The Morandi Bridge​
​Listen to Rita Castigli's Italian translation
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​Let me lean my cheek against this limestone pillar –  
I want to press until I feel the buzzing, 
the sound the world makes when it isn’t going 
anywhere, a purr of grey transparent wings 
 
hovering in one place. A humming to itself 
because it needs to lie still, stay quiet and 
recover, and who will bring help?  
                                                      The noise 
when the bridge fell down in Genova – the road 
 
you and I drove along slowly, heading east 
behind a small Fiat, packed and weighed down 
with people, cake and flowers for a mother-in-law 
that made a Sunday lunch; they were taking their time – 
 
it was lunchtime again each year when we reached the bridge, 
and the families were always on the move,  
so we’d drive along slowly, those fifteen minutes 
high up over the factories and streets – 
 
I would tell you this news if the stones of the world 
could carry language, but after eight months, the shock 
and the noise inside them still, they cannot move 
or even allow a message to pass through. 
 

April 19


italiano


listen to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading 'For Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia'
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