Leopoldo Zampiccoli
Poem for the Piraeus Lion, a few days before leaving Venice.
a chimeric belonging,
to where we have set
foot, and will again,
where we stand now,
and the scars
of foreign voices
that were chiseled
on our captive skin:
to belong, just as not to,
gets layered along
time-space nostalgias.
About the Author
Leopoldo Zampiccoli is a graduate student at ISAW (NYU) in history and heritage of Western Asia, with a focus on the Late Bronze and Iron Age along the Eastern Mediterranean coasts. He is interested in the entanglements of narratives, identities, and languages (visual, spoken, written, silenced) along time, space, and memory. Raised between Trentino and Cyprus, Venetian by adoption, with occasional wanderings in Israel-Palestine, now he lives in Brooklyn.
Instagram: @koppa_theta