Laura Giordani​

 
The Blue Overcoat
 
The blue overcoat you put on
 over the shoulders of the girl
 soaked from interrogation
 shaking
 watered tortured with the picana *
 each night
 they´d left her next to your mattress
 with a puppylike whimper
 that gesture despite the fear
 over all the fear you took off your blue overcoat
 to warm her
unable to resist giving over all
over all the horror
in its midst
dignity can stand
blue
in just two meters of cloth
those centimeters your hand
covered in the dark over her shoulders
over all else.
 
 
* The “picana” is a wand or prod that delivers a high voltage but low current electric shock to a torture victim.
 

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Laura Giordani is a writer and poet from Argentina. She develops teaching activities and gives seminars on poetic writing and artistic creation processes.  She resides in Spain. Her books: “Materia oscura” (2010), “Noche sin Clausura” (2012), “Antes de desaparecer” (2014), “Una lengua impropia” (2014), “La infancia que nos aguarda” (2016), “Manca terra” (2020), “Micelio” (2025) and the plaquettes “Celebración del brote” (2009), “Las varas del zahoríç: poemas de la sed” (2013) and “Monte adentro” (2018). Her texts have been included in various anthologies and she has collaborated in different national and international publications such as Youkali, Viento Sur, Ginebra Magnolia (Peru-Spain), Eclipse, Nayagua, The children's book of american bird, Shangrila Textos Aparte, Confines (Argentina), Galerna (USA), Quimera, Isla Negra (Italy), La Salamandra Ebria, Al-Nasher Al-Usboei (Saudi Arabia) and Alameda 39. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Portuguese, English and Greek.

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