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Flowers for Paolo (Fiori per Paolo​)​: 'I am a Force of the Past'

from Flowers for Paolo (Fiori per Paolo) by Sean Brennan

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III.) 'I am a Force of the Past'

“…
I am a force of the Past.
My love lies only in tradition.
I come from the ruins, the churches,
the altarpieces, the villages
abandoned [...] where my brothers once lived.
I wander [...] like a dog without a master.
Or I see the twilights, the mornings, [...]
as the first acts of Posthistory
to which I bear witness, by arbitrary
birthright, from the outer edge
of some buried age. Monstrous is the man
born of a dead woman’s womb.
And I, a fetus now grown, roam about
more modern than any modern man,
in search of brothers no longer alive…”


translation by Steven Sartarelli

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from Flowers for Paolo (Fiori per Paolo), released November 2, 2020

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