Is poetry Metaphysics? Second Lesson (Echoes of the In-Between)

 

In poetry, in the ordinary (saeculum) abides the extraordinary (divine). In the language of poetry, within every familiar, immediate meaning of each word, a deeper meaning is necessarily echoed; if we hear it, a revelation of something that abides beyond the usual meaning emerges.
It can be like a voice
Perché mi abbandoni? Perché taci?
La tua sorda voce dentro fugace.
Fuori è la neve - l'inverno di nuovo
Il sole appare guarda scompare
E tu anche venivi e poi andavi
ma ora fatta ti sei impensabile
ti rendi e nascondi inarrivabile.

Why do you abandon me? Why are you silent?
Your mute voice within, fleeting.
Outside it’s snowing—winter again.
The sun appears, look, it disappears.
And you too came and then went,
But now you’ve become unthinkable,
You show yourself and hide, unreachable.
In that silence, the poet discovers the signs of a relation between the inward and the outward, in the in-between of the coming and going of the sun, in the changing of the seasons, that the thinkable is lost in the unthinkable, hiding itself and becoming unreachable.
But in this in-between, a Fullness is coming, is emerging, is palpable.
The Fullness of perceiving the extraordinary beyond the disappeared voice.