B e t w e e n H e r e a n d T h e r e
A journey in a backdrop of social, political and cultural turmoil.
“I don’t know what a house is;
Is it a coat?
Or an umbrella if it rains?
I have filled it with bottles, rags,
Wooden ducks, curtains, fans,
It seems I never want to leave it!
Then it’s a cage;
That imprisons whoever passes by,
Even a bird like you, dirty with snow.
But what we told each other
Is so light that it cannot be kept in.”
by Tonino Guerra,
translated from Italian.