GIULIO MAFFII

 

 

1

 

Let’s stay here

where death does not weigh

and if no one listens

the story does not exist

Let’s reveal the farce of solitude

inside this glass

where everything is seen and smelled

where everything passes with little joy

Here everything devours and grinds us

We have been the five continents

and the sixth of our fused bodies

 

2

 

The last winter

the resin diagonals seek contact

a rite the marine spirit

not city algorithms

curiosities of the almost living

the static displacement of the house

we grew in height

we marked the tally on the door jamb

in the bathroom

where the usual spider had another den

 

3

 

The gate creaks another creak

follows step by step

the silence of porcelain

the entrance

this scattered swarm

the trajectories of the word

immersed in the clang of the railing

the dry bottom of the marsh

 

4

 

There are more than three solitudes

a shoe under the bed

the empty side of the table

the blank page at the end of a book

Fear and risk cannot be separated at any latitude

not touching us is the fourth loneliness

 

GIULIO MAFFII

 

GIULIO MAFFII: He was born in Florence (Italy). His studies are dedicated to poetry (linear-experimental-visual) and its diffusion. He wrote the short essay “Le mucche non leggono Montale” (2013), "Misinabì" (2014), " The dance of the reluctant "(2015)," Giusto un tarlo sulla trave "(2016) and" Angina d'amour "(2018). In 2020 he published the essay "The feet forward: the long walk of anthropos and thanatos between poetry and similar vices". In 2021 his work of visual poetry “Sequenze per sbagliare il bersaglio”. In 2022 "Atletico sull'Atlantico" and “Radiografie”. He has published in many international magazines. He collaborates with “Bubamara Teatro” Theater Company. He teaches at the University of Florence.