You Mix Your Voice with the Fog Tonight

Written by Laura Corraducci

Translated from the Italian by the poet

Narrated by Bill Wolak

Italy

you mix your voice with the fog tonight

close the windows let the show be for me

I see you with your hands in black and white

the contours of your lips always shaded

a ghost who is passing by

to put the soul in a body who rejects her

I’m cut off as a shoot from the vine

dry wood with no fruit for September

the sirens of ships are like an orchestra

and I see the lights behind the hill

if you prayed for a farewell

that wouldn’t be so nice

Laura Corraducci was born in Italy, in Pesaro, where she lives. In 2007, she published her first collection of poems Lux Renova  (Ed. Del Leone, Venice). In 2015, she published her second collection of poems, Il Canto di Cecilia e altre poesie—Cecilia’s Song and Other Poems (Raffaelli editore), and in 2020, she published Il passo dell’obbedienza—The Step of the Obedience (Moretti e Vitali editore). She has organized several poetry readings and the festival “Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa” dedicated to contemporary Italian and international poetry. She has translated into Italian Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Edition, by the English poet Caroline Clark. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, English, Romanian, Dutch and Portuguese