La felicita / Happiness

mOthertongue
Volume 13 Spring
Article 8
2007
La felicita / Happiness
Rebecca Paxton
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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La
telicita
Rebecca Paxton
La contentezza e un editicio che
La
telicita e
una
foglia
Le sorelle castane, gia morte,
tratto
II
si
tempo
ferina,
ci
gente vede ogni giorno.
si
increspano sotto
i
piedi dei passanti frettolosi.
trovando quella toglia ancora verde in mezzo
Una
ragazza di nove anni ad
un
alia folia.
esita.
La ragazzina vede soltanto
Non
la
ancora verde che cade da un albero pieno di oscurita.
sono suoni tranne
All'improwiso,
la vita
la foglia
i
—
le
vene,
sospiri leggeri che
comincia di nuovo e
il
il
colore brillante,
la
bellezza.
scappano da una boccuccia sorridente.
momento
vola via con
le altre foglie neil'aria.
La ragazzina mette
il
fresco tesoro nello zaino.
Quella notte, tornando a casa,
e
come prima
la
ragazzina corre in camera da letto e cerca
—
la foglia
e diventata secca e scolorita. La ragazzina e soprattutto infastidita
nello zaino. La trova,
—
la
prende e
la
ma non
getta dalla
finestra.
La foglia ritorna a terra e
la
piccola ragazza
non
ci
pensa
piii.
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Happiness
Rebecca Paxton
Contentment
Happiness
is
The brown
is
an office building that people see everyday.
a leaf
still
green that
falls
from
a tree full
of obscurity.
already dead, gather under the feet of the hurried pas.ser-bys.
sisters,
A
nine-year-old
girl
suddenly
stops because she finds that green leaf in the middle of the crowd.
Time
The
falters.
little girl
— the
sees only the leaf
veins, the bright color, the beauty.
There are not any other sounds except the
All
of the sudden,
the
new
life starts
again and the
it,
takes
it
The
moment
flies
escape from a smiling
away with the other
little
mouth.
leaves in the
air.
The
little girl
puts
treasure in her schoolbag.
That night, coming home, the
finds
light sighs that
but
it is
not like before
and throws
it
little girl
—
it
has
runs to her bedroom and searches for the leaf
become dry and
discolored.
The
little girl is
in
her schoolbag. She
above
all
else
annoyed
— she
out the window.
leaf returns to the earth
and the
little girl
never thinks of
it
again.
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