Poems by Aldo Quagliotti
Crudités The body is ephemeral doesn’t smoke out its potential yet it prevents us from dying more than once in the same cycle in the erroneous shape that ages by yawning the need for evasion castrated by permanence and the rebellious attitude to fit an incongruous manner in the jacket of bon ton kisses challenge the escapade of this hide and seek life and death equally makes us sick like a spurious pregnancy every time we swell gradually we get promised Apocalypse it turns out it’s a Genesis the deep-rooted calligraphy of love to bolster faltering steps is named Poetry and nothing else so slice your anger and fear in practical crudités make your life the best portion prêt à manger
Fascinate Heart murmurs fascinate me the sound of galopping concerns life usurping its throne to death eyes like modern metropolis buzzing swarms of to-do lists while your soul no longer insists on connecting dots on starry nights you don’t use a thimble anymore to sew broken days to ecstatic nights you let it all go and ride the calendar as it comes the dandruff as it plummets your heart as it ticks
Ellectrocuted When my crockery crashes with such irksome croaking my mind disperses its thoughts running spaghettis through the colander I think back on my timing flailing my arms, maybe hours will stop I was 17, reaching out to an ink donor couldn’t find anything different than my flickering shadow plunging into the night before the day was over I used to chase thunderstorms like kites breaking out their sky always running at breakneck speed on the slope of my anxiety every time falling onto a night arriving too early, disintegrating the light leaving me electrocuted
Aldo Quagliotti is an Italian poet living in London, UK. He’s the author of Japanese Tosa (London Poetry Books), Confessions Of A Pregnant Man (AllienBuddha Press) and Incubi&Succubi.
His poems have been rewarded in Italy, Brazil, USA, Canada, Ireland and in the United Kingdom. He has been selected for important anthologies such as Paper therapy,Yawp!, The Essential anthology, Murmurations, Poetical Word, Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus. Several webzines and magazines have published his work, such as INNSÆI, U-rights, Credo espoir, Parouisia , Poetica Review and many more.He has been chosen to represent the Poetry Corner at the London Chelsea + Kesington Art Week. 2020,2021 and 2022 editions.
