Amethyst

Artist Patrizia Rizzo.
You look like a statue with a marbled white face ...

It's midnight in green neighborhoods now
Midnight like a blue thistle in a blue glass
Like a beach umbrella opened in a green sky
It's midnight now, wet fire wears away the stone
Speckled fire of cut reeds
Torn Fruit Fire
Scarlet predators behind the raised curtain
It's midnight and night glass
Quietly split the flesh of the night
Midnight as a prism
In the chest of a woman in love
Which is about to turn into a bird
Midnight is like a diamond
Between the legs of this abandoned woman
Throwing white pills on white nettles
It's midnight like a poppy now
Blooming in the eyes of a lonely woman
Blooming in her ringing blood
Midnight is like a knife in a red orange
In the red heart of this sad woman
Watching at the foot of her dead statues
It's midnight like a raven chick
In the faded arms of this naked woman
Naked hourglass figurine
Now it's midnight between people -
Between two strokes of the scythe, a second.

Mark Paten. translation by Evgeniy Golosov