Not living in Tokyo, Moscow, Dubai, simultaneously,
we place barriers of three thousand kilometres between Monza and Milan,
you, intent on flying, Hesiodic nightingale, to Paris and the resorts,
I, distracted by the tonnage of chains that bind
masses of stayers to factories, houses, warehouses,
we dance, multitasking at different speeds, with sandals
(yours, Cleopatra’s; mine strictly Franciscan)
upon shards of diamond or cuts of glass,
locked in embraces as foreign as the robots
of remote surgical operations.
Accustomed to weaving webs of selection,
unweaving them each night, an ultra-modern Penelope,
to choose, to wear, to discard everything,
will you ever find the courage to wear
my straitjackets, with no guarantees against fraying,
to flush out the black fury of the rottweiler?
And will the enchantment endure for me,
for me, who count scars like stars on the celestial vault of my face,
as I mirror myself in your metic eyes,
hidden nomads behind tagelmusts marketed by Bryan & Barry,
without shattering into fragments to recount
to other metic eyes, and to others still,
unto serial infinity?
Ivan Pozzoni was born in Monza in 1976. He introduced
Law and Literature in Italy and the publication of essays on Italian philosophers and on the ethics and juridical theory of the ancient world; He collaborated with several Italian and international magazines. Between 2007 and 2024, different versions of the books were published:
Underground and
Riserva Indiana, with A&B Editrice,
Versi Introversi,
Mostri,
Galata morente,
Carmina non dant damen,
Scarti di magazzino,
Qui gli austriaci sono più severi dei Borboni, Cherchez la troika and
La malattia invettiva with Limina Mentis,
Lame da rasoi, with Joker,
Il Guastatore, with Cleup,
Patroclo non deve morire, with deComporre Edizioni,
Kolektivne NSEAE and
Lo Stato Pontificio with Divinafollia. It contains a fortnight of autogérées socialistes edition houses. He wrote 152 volumes, wrote 1000 essays, founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme, approved by Zygmunt Bauman), and wrote an Anti-manifesto NéoN-Avant-gardiste. His verses are translated into 30 languages. In 2024, after six years of total retrait of academic studies, he return to the Italian artistic world and melts the
NSEAE Kolektivne (New socio/ethno/aesthetic anthropology)
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This article was posted on Sunday, June 28th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
