LIDIA CHIARELLI - RHAPSODY IN GRAY

Lidia Chiarelli is one of the Charter Members of  Immagine & Poesia, the art literary Movement founded in Torino (Italy) in 2007 with Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan Thomas’ daughter.
Installation artist and collagist. Coordinator of #DylanDay in Italy (Turin).
She has become an award-winning poet since 2011 and she was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from The First International Poetry Festival of Swansea (U.K.) for her broadside poetry and art contribution. Awarded with the Cross-Cultural Communications Medal 2020.
Six Pushcart Prize (USA) nominations.
Her writing has been translated into different languages and published in Poetry magazines, and on web-sites in many countries.
 
https://lidiachiarelli.jimdofree.com/
https://lidiachiarelliart.jimdofree.com/
https://immaginepoesia.jimdofree.com/
 

Rhapsody in Gray
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to Tamara de Lempicka
 
… I mark
On the horizon walking like the trees
The wordy shapes of women
Dylan Thomas
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Beverly Hills, California, 1930
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​Lightly the paintbrush slips
on the canvas caressing
elongated bodies
women behind steering wheels
 an enigma inside
 melancholy and distracted eyes.

Soaring skyscrapers
take form
in bold vertical lines.
 
Reflections of alabaster
flood
a road in the night
interlocking games
and new geometries.
 
The modulated sounds of a saxophone
come from afar
while in the light
of street lamps
shadows descend in
long variegated spirals of
iridescent gray.