{"id":504,"date":"2010-06-20T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T10:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=504"},"modified":"2010-06-20T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T10:32:42","slug":"laura-silvia-battaglia-2-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/laura-silvia-battaglia-2-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Silvia Battaglia\/ 2 poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leftbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20100620-luara.jpg' width='94' height='129' alt='null' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nBut do you really think, Gardener,<br \/>\nthat I didn\u2019t notice how often you nuzzled the wisteria?<br \/>\n <!--more-->..<\/p>\n<p>Laura Silvia Battaglia<\/p>\n<p>Why do you inflict this secateur-cut on me<br \/>\nyou\u2019re not pruning me, Gardener<br \/>\nyou scythe the good grass<br \/>\nyou have no pity on this plant<br \/>\nwhich is setting its roots in the future.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;                             *<\/p>\n<p>\nYou no longer tend my bay-tree,<br \/>\nYou no longer rub its aromatic leaves on your lips<br \/>\nto kiss them on silvery evenings.<br \/>\nBut do you really think, Gardener,<br \/>\nthat I didn\u2019t notice how often you nuzzled the wisteria?<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p>Laura Silvia Battaglia is a journalist, author and documentary maker. She is the co-producer with  Matteo Scanni and Armando Trivellini of the documentary Maria Grazia Cutuli. Il prezzo della verit\u00e0 (2008) on Maria Grazia Cutuli, a journalist of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera killed in an explosion on 19 November 2001 on the road between Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan. In the attack the El Mundo correspondent Julio Fuentes and two Reuters correspondents Azizullah Haidari and Harry Burton also died. The documentary is the result of three years of research and brings together previously unpublished material and interviews with many of her colleagues and those who were with her immediately prior to the explosion which killed her. She is the author of Mario Luzi-Luciano Sampaoli: Le arti amanti (2009).<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\ntranslated from Italian to English by; Anthony Robbins<br \/>\noriginal source; &#8220;Gli Smerilliani tradotti&#8221; <br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But do you really think, Gardener, that I didn\u2019t notice how often you nuzzled the wisteria?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}