Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Untitled in Blue to S by Gabriella Garofalo

Dương Nhân

Untitled in Blue to S

Been hanging around for long, sky?

The days are gathering to bring back the soul 

To the grass you snatched her from, 

The smokeless blue flame is coming,

The partner to your greedy hands,

Your reason as fruits rot, 

A cheap light is spreading 

Her percussive blue all over the house-

But no need for high drama, soul,

Don’t go ablaze when breath blows you, 

Or hope looking for shelters 

Shifts your crippled limbs:

Same old stuff never ends, maybe loss,

Maybe desert, old bags lying still as light, 

As their wounded, scraped voice

Orders the shadows, and dries up 

The echo in your eyes-

Careful now, soul, the sky looks stark, 

Just a handful of slag as you stumble

On stubborn births, dispersing clouds,

And high tension writes the electric blue 

On the dark that burns your fingers-

But don’t kid yourself you can you hide 

Your thirst among hushed memories, broken limbs,

Poetry, prayers, who cares about names,

As long as they play along with water, or daffs,

Just look for your erewhon, right, 

Even a bloody trench of rattling bodies

While cops are yanking away

Two young black tramps who might taint-

Heaven forbid- The pure white of a lovely station.

© Gabriella Garofalo


Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at six, and is the author of these books: Lo sguardo di OrfeoL’inverno di vetroDi altre stelle polariCasa di erbaBlue BranchesBlue Souland After The Blue Rush.



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