An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) If you were a flower, would you ever like to be stepped on? If you were a tree, would you ever like to be cut down? And if you were a dragonfly, would you ever like someone to pull off your wings? (…) [from “Loop #07” … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #06

An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) I let the messy knot of my thoughts undo in the wind, that every fear, uncertainty, might be carried away by it, kidnapped and dissolved in the graceful dance of newborn grass and of vigorous fronds. I let the tepid embrace of spring’s sun surround me … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #05

An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) Only a breath, only a caress. Keep me with you, pretty please. Nothing wrong, my friend, just Love. [from “Loop #03” – Retouched: March 2021. Original text: 2006 – Original photo: Marco Bianchetti on Unsplash] “The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – An extension of The … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #04

An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) A night unable to be comprehended, of being grasped, fully understood, stopped in the immensity of a dream. (…) [from “Loop #02” – Retouched: March 2021. Original text: 2006 – Original photo: Henry Chen on Unsplash] “The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – An extension of … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #03

An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) The slow lifting of the fog, a light breeze moves the tops of the trees resigned to the fall, messily, barely caressing them. The sharp smell of humid earth and of iron, cement, of trains ready to leave for the sea or for delirious cities. The … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #02

An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) Teetering between reason and feelings, tightrope walkers on a thin thread, between dream and reality. (…) incapable of stopping the dancing to the rhythm of one’s own heart. Incapable of stopping the Living. [from “Loop #01” – Retouched: March 2021. Original text: January 2003 – … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #01