MICHELA ZANARELLA

MICHELA ZANARELLA

                                                                          

                                                                           1

Your eyes

makes me light

and it’s like a rustling in the flesh

the silence that asks for listening.

You hugged me

like the wind makes no noise

and I stretched out my veins

until they become the echo

of a love that does not end

but that is emptied and filled

every time the sky

he wants to become sea.

2

There are silences only ours

and there is the sacred glow of the sun

that unites us like waves moved by the wind.

Nothing about you escapes me

while watching the seasons change

while I try to defend myself from the past.

Just thinking about what we are

I open the doors of my eyelashes

where I see a light that looks like you.

3

You go from a silence to a look

and I feel the same oxygen.

I would like to find you in the middle of my days

in a world

that catches us unprepared

to look at ourselves in love in the same light.

MICHELA ZANARELLA

MICHELA ZANARELLA was born in Cittadella (PD) in 1980. Since 2007 she lives and works in Rome. She published the following collections of poetry: Credo (2006), Awakenings (2008), Life, infinite, havens (2009), Sensuality (2011), Meditations for women (2012), The aesthetics of the beyond (2013), The identity of the sky (2013). In Romania it came out in a bilingual edition the collection Imensele coincidenţe (2015). She is author of fiction and texts for theater. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, greek, Portuguese, Hindi and Japanese. She has got the Creativity Prize at the International Prize Naji Naaman's 2016. She is ambassador for culture and represents Italy in Lebanon for the Foundation Naji Naaman. Corresponding member of the Academy Cosentina, founded in 1511 by Aulo Giano Parrasio. She works in international relations for EMUI EuroMed University.