Una donna ha inventato il fuoco e l’ha chiamato ruota by Grace Paley

Author:Grace Paley [Paley, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788869983832
Publisher: SUR
Published: 2023-11-16T11:09:21+00:00

WAR

The boys from St. Bernard’s

and the boys from

Our Lady of Pompeii

converge on the corner of Bleecker and Bank

There is a grinding of snowballs

and a creaking of ice

The name of our Lord is invoked

But for such healthy tough warriors

He has other deaths in mind

Sulky

They part

[vai all’italiano]

FOR DANNY

My son enters the classroom

There are thirty-two children waiting for him

He dreams that he will teach them to read

His head is full of the letters that words are looking for

Because of his nature

his fingers are flowers

Here is a rose he says look it grew right

into the letter R

They like that idea very much they lean forward

He says now spell garden

They write it correctly in their notebooks maybe

because the word rose is in it

My son is happy

Now spell sky

For this simple word the children

turn their eyes down and away doesn’t he know

the city has been quarreling with the sky all of their lives

Well, he says Spell home he’s a little frightened

to ask this of them What?

They laugh they can’t hear him say

What’s so funny? they jump

up out of their seats laughing

My son says hopefully It’s three o’clock

but they don’t want to leave where will they go?

they want to stay right here in the classroom they probably

want to spell garden again they want

to examine his hand

[vai all’italiano]

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