AMELIA ROSSELLI, "GENERAL STRIKE 1969"

....We had to express something better: allow ourselves

this rhetoric that was a howl

of protest against undaunted

destruction in our frightened

houses. (I lost that vertical

love of solitary god

revolutionizing myself in the people

removing myself from heaven.)

—from Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, trans. Jennifer Scappettone