You come, you come

                                                                          A line of translucent light

And you touch me,

A hand, shoulder blade exposed

You come and you dissolve the wax

with the blind ear

Impenetrable, I wandered, closed off

                                                                          All in silk trickle

                                                                          // Against, I say, against

Powerlessness, resistant the language

With the refrain that emaciates

The now

You come and you unfurl

                                                                          Uncertain crackling of fissures

Ulna against malleolus
Lashes and flagella to explore
Pallor, to flush
Redness

                                                                          (You enchant me

Again, I am
On stone here
Emerging on the surface
Of the stretched horizon

To appear, disappear
Petals and leaves of wings to spread
Going
Still going

Text by Simona Polvani

Poem for video installation In-Apparenza (2012); conception and text by Simona Polvani, video production by Federico Fiori and Francesca Lenzi (Influx); at Nottilucente Festival 2012, Piazza delle Erbe, San Gimignano, Italy.

Translated in English by Diane Eberhardt.

Photo: Untitled (2013), by Stefano Frosini
Nikon case D300s, optical Sigma 17-50mm F/18, 53.2 secondes