[意大利]皮娜·匹科洛诵读原创诗歌《河外天体》

皮娜·匹科洛（Pina Piccolo）

生长于意大利及加州伯克利，在加州大学伯克利分校获得博士学位，现居意大利。诗人、翻译家、视觉艺术家，《La macchina sognante》联合创始人及管理团队成员。

Foreign Celestial Body

Pina Piccolo

 
Because in our heart of hearts
we may hail
from some distant celestial body
and got here, eventually,
evolved from the water 
spilled from a far away galaxy
most of us are 
perhaps secretly at odds
with this carbon reality
with these valleys
and these rivers
the mountains
the forests 
and the seas
 
We might wax poetic
about them
but do we really feel we belong
as we lay
another piece of plastic
or dig out another lump of coal?
 
Yet the planet has not ceased
to scatter its brethren signs:
to be fathomed 
in the wagging of a tail
in the landing of a butterfly
in the crow cawing 
incredulously
at you
from the power line
 
A crossing of the wires:
we see nothing but 
a mechanistic movement
of a muscle
random ornithological
vibrations of the throat
patterned wings flapped  
by instinct
hardly an attempt at instigating
the complementary beauty
of intersecting species
 
Somehow, and it is a mystery why,
it does not belong to us
nor we to it.