Red Doves – the beginning of a novel

A WAKE FOR TONI (arrival) It was the olive-picking season, the octopus hunting had begun, the last glimmers of summer were fading, and I certainly wouldn’t have gone back there, only you can’t go back to somewhere you’ve never been. No, I guess I would never have visited that...

A SKETCH FOR A HEROINE

(multiple one) there once was a woman who lowered a pendulum into the sea hoping this would it turn upside down – who listened through a golden funnel, until the sea entered her ear, through the ear into the palace – who was trying to leave fingerprints on the...

EXILE SUITE

Mediterranean is becoming a mass grave  was always a mass grave as soon as it rises it takes lovers, its bottom covered with keels luring and lashing: there’s land on the other side, towns to be piled to be fertilized the sea of heroes equipping their ships with wooden...

THE CABINET FOR SENTIMENTAL TRIVIAL LITERATURE

September 8th. Dear Rosa, I’ve been thinking for a long time about how it would be pleasant to write to you. But it is only today, facing the usual chaos in the office – no, it has not diminished over time – that I almost unintentionally wrote the date...