Love knocked on the shutters of my windows, my shatterproof glasses,
with the knuckles of delicate fingers, different from mine, scarred by blows given and received,
blinding me with the wonder of gaining once more an opportunity to waste,
of still having a train to wait for at Milan station.
You are the beauty of a cloud swallowed by the engines of a Tupolev Tu‑144,
you are the radiant smile of a child in oncological rehabilitation,
you are a pencil sharpened to the extreme, piercing the backs of my hands,
as abyssal as the Chicxulub crater; your eyes extinguish my banks of fog.
Love has swept away every cheval de frise of mine with the naturalness of a flamethrower,
flushing out antibodies and anti-woman mines scattered across the territories of my battles,
gifting me a weekly mobile phone plan
with five thousand minutes to squander.
You are the toxic rainbow coloring the rain-filled seas of industrial cities,
stinging, staining my clothes, painting my face, hurling yourself upon me,
contaminating my movements with radioactivity, forcing me to insinuate myself beneath your skin,
you are the splendor of combat and surrender, of combat and surrender,
the splendor of blank space, to fill or to tear away.
Love that teaches me to care for you, you who sleep on the couch
with the serenity of a tiger cub, you who dream of butterflies and ISBN codes,
un-teaches me to care for my own care, transforms me into an unknown soldier
laid to rest in the shrine of your carefree existence.
Distant love, you conquer the terror of death
with the same valor of the immortality of art,
reviving the missionary zeal of a hermit in twisted rhymes,
accustomed to surviving in the shadows.
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 2018, 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,
Here the Austrians are more severe than the Bourbons, Cherchez the troika. et The Invective Disease with Limina Mentis,
Lame da rasoi, with Joker,
Il Guastatore, with Cleup,
Patroclo non deve morire, with deComporre Edizioni and
Kolektivne NSEAE, with Divinafollia. He was the founder and director of the literary magazine
Il Guastatore – «neon»-avant-garde notebooks; he was the founder and director of the literary magazine
L'Arrivista; he is the editor and chef of the international philosophical magazine
Información Filosófica; he is, or has been, creator of the series Esprit (Limina Mentis), Nidaba (Gilgamesh Edizioni) and Fuzzy (deComporre). It contains a fortnight of autogérées socialistes edition houses. He wrote 150 volumes, wrote 1000 essays, founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme, approved by Zygmunt Bauman), with a millier of movements, and wrote an Anti-manifesto NéoN-Avant-gardiste. This is mentioned in the main university manuals of literature history, philosophical history and in the main volumes of literary criticism. His book La malattia invettiva wins Raduga, mention of the critique of Montano et Strega. He is included in the
Atlas of contemporary Italian poets of the University of Bologne and figures à plusieurs reprized in the great international literature review of
Gradiva. His verses are translated into 25 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, July 12th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
