Crivu #6/ Sieve by Patrizia Sardisco

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Crivu #6 Patrizia Sardisco i àrichi su’ acqua sugnu idda nt’a vuci nto latti ncapu a lingua bianca muntagna e s’arruzzola achiòviri cu m’u lassau ritto ca l’acchianari ìu ca ‘l’ha chianiàru ìu

Sieve #6 Patrizia Sardisco our roots are water she is there in my voice in the milky lymph of my tongue mountain white and rain pouring down whose bequest is it tells me it is I who must rise it it is I who must raze it Translation ©Matilda Colarossi

Patrizia Sardisco’s lyrics and her short stories, in both Italian and Sicilian dialect, have been published in numerous anthologies, as well on numerous blogs. Poem #6  is from the collection Crivu, winner of the 44th edition of the “International Città di Marineo Prize”.

In Italian the poem reads thus: “le radici sono acqua/ sono lei nella voce/ nella linfa biancastra sulla lingua/ bianca montagna e piove a…

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