We could never be happy
returning the hands to their place
and love each other without undecided detachments
reaching you is monstrous
the world enclosed in a room
exchanging shadows for spells
a game of joints
they call it paranoia
it sends you out
suppose you check until the last
I miss you a lot
I hope not to skid
I would like Francesca to stop
calls several times a day
she wants me to tell her about you
when she rings I answer
Hello Tiù is that you?
Giorgio Anastasia (Italy, 1972) from Fondazione collection – translation from Italian by Slow Words
Oltre (2022) is the cover picture author is the student photographer Renata Petti who took part to a workshop lead by Diana Marrone (Slow Words) at CFI (Centro Fotografia Indipendente) founded by Mario Spada, Biagio Ippolito and Luca Anzani in Naples – an unconventional photography school where Slow Words and Fondazione editorial team partnered to issue a booklet of postcards in which the students freely chose to associate their photo projects to Anastasia’s poems.