Candida Rabbia

Candida Rabbia was born in 1952 in Villanova Solaro (CN) and lives and works in Cuneo. She is a painter who for many years taught art and art history in middle and high schools. Her watercolors find the source of their inspiration in nature, often in flowers, and so do her poems, characterized by a marked visual quality. Candida Rabbia writes both poetry and prose in Piedmontese. Her most recent books are Badeuj (2018) and Sij pass bërgé (2019), collections of poems and short stories respectively.

Sol ën cusin-a (unpublished)

Ant na man
bianch
un bel euv d’òca,
‘nt l’auta
giàun molsin
ij pampocèt.

Frità dossa
aleta ‘d Prima
… Tut ël sol
ën cusin-a.

(Sole in cucina «In una mano / bianco / un bell’ uovo d’oca, / nell’altra / giallo tenero / le primule. // Frittata dolce / brezza di Primavera / . . . Tutto il sole / in cucina.»)

Sunshine in the kitchen

In one hand
white
a beautiful goose egg,
in the other
tender yellows
primroses.

Sweet omelette
Spring breeze
…All the sunshine
in the kitchen.