Viviana De Cecco’s poem-art: Train of Dreams


We are all passengers on a train of dreams,

crossing the plains of cold reality.

The tracks run through a land of illusions

where illuminated windows beckon lonely travelers.

In the white veil enveloping the landscape,

a little girl posting a letter seems like

an innocent mirage of a vanished childhood.

Memories of the past explode in the darkness

and slowly melt away like dying snowflakes.

Station after station, we try to disembark at our destination,

knocking on a red door, behind which

perhaps lies the secret of a winter night of love.



Viviana De Cecco is a writer, translator, and visual artist. She works as a content writer and book reviewer for Tint Journal and NewMyths. Her translations of twentieth-century poetry and short stories from Spanish, French and Italian have appeared in Azonal Translation, The Polyglot Magazine and Atèlier d’écriture. Her fiction and poetry have also appeared in Poets’ Choice, Aôthen Magazine, Seaside Gothic, Yuvoice.org, and others. As an artist, her visual art appeared in Mud Season Review, Acta Victoriana, Spellbinder Magazine, MayDay Magazine. Since 2013, she has published short stories, poems and novels of various genres. Her literary works and photographs can be found at: https://vivianadececco.altervista.org/

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