If the earth is the ‘earth’

Written in 1980 and not published during the artist’s lifetime. Published in ‘Nanni Valentini’, Riga 3, Velate 1992

If the earth is the ‘earth’
her memory is timeless.
It is she who has swallowed
the walls of wax and feathers of the oracle,
she is dry, cold, yellow and silent.
The signs of the seeds, of the line of the long shadow,
of water, of the hollow, adapt to her.
Her memory is the tablet
of Ebla that speaks, as if beyond the horizon,
still dwells in insomnia.
I prefer the earth of the philosopher,
‘the earth of the evening’.