Land

A poem

Mariolina Castellaneta
Rainbow Salad
Jun 20, 2024

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Photo by Vincent Eisfeld on Unsplash

I think of my land
With its green palette
Sponged with olive Oil.
But I think of their Land, too.
A red rivulet,
Washed by blood.
Every fallen olive here
Is a Mother’s teardrop
There.

© 2024 Mariolina Castellaneta

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Mariolina Castellaneta
Rainbow Salad

Reader, writer (somehow), daydreamer. Autistic Filmmaker based in Berlin. BA in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing. MA in Directing.