Interview and Poems on Margutte

I am delighted to tell you that Margutte, the online Italian literature magazine published a short interview with me and a couple of poems. Thank you, Margutte. 
Below are my poems in English. If you'd like to read the interview and poems on Margutte's website, click here, for the Italian, click here.

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I lean
Against an imaginary wall
Breathless
Some of me is still running
A distant lull
Of fast train on humming tracks
My fragile secrets
Reach up and hide the stars.
I light my imaginary
Cigarette
It makes this imaginary soul
Feel
Important
Adult
Thoughtful
Rebellious
Alive
Real
For a moment
One transient inhale at a time.
I still write, paint, create art, imagine
And yes, I dare to giggle
Often
Only because
I don’t know
What wounds my sadness would heal.

​So Many
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So many people
On that dinghy
So many
And you.
You tried
To make your body
Small
Smaller
Smaller still.
You tried
To still your body
Still
Still
Still.
So close you sat
You could not tell
Was it your body shaking
Or that of someone else.
You imagined
Strange creatures below
Waiting
For your fall
Strange creatures
Waiting on land
Strange land.
You imagined waiting
Waiting
Waiting
All land is strange
Now you’ve left home.
You imagined
Just letting yourself
Fall
Becoming salt
Fodder for the froth
Of one angry sea.
So many people
So many
And you.