Bella Akhmadulina
- Incantation, by Albert C. Todd
Bella Achmadulina (italiano)
- Esorcismo, Daniela Gatti
«Through the closed nursery doors, the sugar angel / stares through the chink to see / the children playing at the Christmas party, / the brightly candled tree. Nana is making up the crackling fire, / a blaze for Christmas Day. / Only the sugar angel — he is German — / wastes, warm a...»
«I had a bird in my hand / but my bird has flown. / I held a bird in my hand / but am now all alone. My small bird has left me / full of anger and rage; / my blue bird has left me / alone in a cage.»
«When the streets empty out / and the singing dies down / and a white fog covers / the swamps and the town, / from the forests in silence / one after another / the wolves come out and go hunting. Seven wolves walk on bravely; / in front of them walks / an eighth with white fur; / w...»
«One mirror must mirror another; / each mirror mismirrors the other. Not that evil cannot be defeated, / only that we cannot escape defeat; I believe in the ash left behind by the fire; / not in the music that burned my life.»