In tempi bui è bene ricordare le stelle. Oggi ripropongo un’altra poesia illuminante di Derek Walcott, tratta dalla raccolta The Gulf. Star If, in the light of things, you fade real, yet wanly withdrawn to our determined and appropriate distance, like the moon left on all night among the leaves, may you invisibly delight this house, O star, doubly compassionate, who came too soon for twilight, too late for dawn, may your faint flame strive with the worst of us through chaos, with the passion of plain day. ——————————————————————————————– Stella Se, alla luce delle cose, sfumi davvero, ma ritirandoti schiva alla … Continua a leggere Stelle