Agnolalliv
written by: Aurora Kastanias
I think I lost my colours, on an island
Amidst emerald mountains, where once
Reigned wolves, hunted and extinct
Now ruled, by ever-smiling drunks, chasing
Wild boars whilst battling against themselves.
A profusion of orange groves, blankets
Elegantly lavish lands effusing
Inebriating scents intoxicating the atmosphere,
An oneiric nowhere-never-wonderland
Where time has stopped and glory survives
Solely in the past, perhaps stranded on its train,
Its voice that of the roaring steam engines
Obsolete just as the memory
Of what once was and never will be.
The town is a town of ‘had beens’
Oblivious to a future no one dares to talk about,
Imagine, nor create. Since my arrival I confess
I have never heard a plan. Nor a dream.
And as I read about jellyfish migration I
Fall deeper into the waves of their vibrations,
I absorb the islanders’ emotional ailments
Feel my energy leisurely abandon my body
To save them, envelop them with the feeling
They are loved, by me, the universe and all
That is in a constant present, humanly
Infinitely, perpetually, and eternally.
While studying for my BA in Business Administration, at an American University in Rome, I further got enchanted by 19th century existential authors as well as European ‘absurdism’ and the Theatre of the Absurd.
It was only after my MBA that I started writing more seriously, giving space to my true passions. In recent years I have written two existential novels in Italian. In recent months I have started studing astrophysics and writing poems in english, which finally brings me here.
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