“Partial knowing.”
I do not blame the idiom
which prevents me dialoguing with you
and imposes on me the ambiguous beauty
of the obscure signs
I will always
fail to recognize,
a strength which is all yours
but which in fact was mine because
of its immensity,
its shared origin, its rough texture,
passed from my tongue to yours, foreign kiss
laws, punishment
set in the weakness of your customs and rules.
Erminia Passannanti
26 december 2001 (written while keeping "breaking" the "boxes")
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