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Translation
Nevsky Prospect
A thirty-degrees-below-zero wind
unhindered over the empty piazzas against the bell towers
at times sounding like bursts of machine-gun fire
disintegrated the accumulations of snow.
And around about the fires of the Red Guards
lit to drive away the wolves
and old women with rosaries.
Sitting on the steps of a church
we waited for the mass to finish and the women to come out
then we watched with absent faces
the unnatural grace of Nijinsky.
Then his impresario
fell hopelessly in love with him
and with Russian ballet.
The winter with my generation
the women bent over weaving frames near the windows
One day on Nevskiy Prospect
I happened to encounter Igor Stravinsky there.
And the chamber pots under the beds
for the night and a film
by Eisenstein on the revolution.
And we studied shut up in a room
the faint light of a candle or an oil lamp
and when it came to having a chat
we were always looking forward to it.
And my teacher taught me
how difficult it is to find
dawn in the twilight
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Collections with "Prospettiva Nevski"
| 1. | Alice- Gioielli rubati (1985) |
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| 1. | Una notte speciale |
| 2. | Per Elisa |
| 3. | Prospettiva Nevski |
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