Olio su lino / Oil on linen - 280 x 400 cm - aprile / april 2015 (Codice / Cod 49)

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54 RITRATTO DI DONNA - PORTRAIT OF WOMAN / olio su lino - oil on linen / 280 x 400 / aprile - april 2015 / codice - code 49


da una poesia di / from a poem by
wislawa szymborska

PORTRAIT OF WOMAN
She must be willing to please.
To change so that nothing should change.
It’s easy, impossible, hard, worth trying.
Her eyes are if need be now deep blue, now gray,
dark, playful, filled for no reason with tears.
She sleeps with him like some chance acquaintance, like his one and only.
She will bear him four children, no children, one.
Naive yet giving the best advice.
Weak yet lifting the weightiest burdens.
Has no head on her shoulders but will have.
Reads Jaspers and ladies’ magazines.
Doesn’t know what this screw is for and will build a bridge.
Young, as usual young, as always still young.
Holds in her hands a sparrow with a broken wing,
her own money for a journey long and distant,
a meat-cleaver, poultice, and a shot of vodka.
Where is she running so, isn’t she tired?
Not at all, just a bit, very much, doesn’t matter.
Either she loves him or has made up her mind to.
For better, for worse, and for heaven’s sake.