The text used in this piece was written by early 20th c. Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938), and translated from the Italian by Lynne Lawner.
TO TRUST
I have so much faith in you. I believe
I could wait for your voice
silently, through centuries
of darkness.
Like the sun
you know all the secrets:
you could make the geraniums
and the wild zagara bloom
deep in the marble
quarries and legendary
prisons.
I have so much faith in you. I’m as calm
as an Arab wrapped
in his white barracan
listening to God
make the barley grow around his house.
