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Light and Rebirth~ By Aldo Quagliotti

7/28/2020

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In the chest of a look, captivating ecstatic
Swans swimming through the future
among their waves, immensity is uproarious
the wind was baptizing me, glorious
my hug now reaches their plumage
dramatizes my steps, as an adage
premiering in front of God

As I child I got locked into myself
A soapy cocoon wedged in amid
tone-deaf growns-up
calling me freak
half-heartedly calling me names
a beary gay, a bloody weirdo
a juiced-up violence, lambent dismay

But I was rooted in writing
An inexpugnable garden of ink
Meowing my poems
My endearments of paper
My fortress of murky intermissions

When my crockery crashes
with such irksome croaking
my mind disperses its thoughts
running spaghettis through the colander
I think back about my timing
flailing my arms, maybe hours will stop
I was 17, reaching out to an ink donor
couldn’t find anything different
than my flickering shadow
plunging into the night
before the day was over

I used to chase thunderstorms
like kites breaking out their sky
always running at breakneck speed
on the slope of my anxiety
every time falling onto a night
arriving too early, disintegrating the light
leaving me electrocuted
Where I'm from It's an unstoppable spring
a malodorous "no", a riot against
my self convictions
my bloody illusions
it's a plainclothes saint
manifesting his sense of infinite
it's a swarm of marigenous sources
masquerading as flies
coming off the landfill
we used to call 'hopes'

where I'm from It's a burning smile
a cringy look to whatever it was
and it's not anymore

a cradle of doubts
a nest of why not
an anthill of so what?


Author Bio:
Aldo Quagliotti, an Italian poet based in London. In 2019 He published his first collection of poems, Japanese Tosa, published by London Poetry Books. The anthology has debuted on October 2019 at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall and has then been promoted throughout the London open mic nights such as Flo Vortex, Paper Tiger, Poetical Word. His poems have also been published in Italian anthologies, such as Il Suono Del Silenzio 2008 and 2008, english collections, Poetical Word and Reach Poetry and Brazilian magazine Revista Torquato. More recently, his work has been included in the Cannon Poet Quarterly and Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus.
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