Todd Portnowitz

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Requiem for a Lombard Nursing Home

Translated into English by Todd Portnowitz

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

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I If the light came in through here if a passer-by
in this world could pluck one of its rays
slipping through the horizontal bars the blades
of these encrusted shutters that exile us it would give the yellow glow a noxious heat,
as if filtered

Plateau of Runaways

Translated into English by Todd Portnowitz

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

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“Under what guidance, following what signs? [. . . ] An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible time [ . . . ] The uncertainty of thoroughfares, rendering perilous.”
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Because

Translated into English by Todd Portnowitz

Written in Italian by Laura Accerboni

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– Don’t mope over it all day, he said. I’m inconsequent. Give up the moody brooding.
His head vanished but the drone of his descending voice boomed out of the stairhead: And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love’s bitter mystery
For Fergus