Alessio Zanelli

The Runner

Alessio Zanelli

On feet of dreams the runner’s headed to land’s end. She knows the horizon keeps receding while she’s running, but she runs as though it didn’t. A finish line is not her aim. Along the pathway time’s not measured in seconds but in paces, in fact a runner’s time and space commingle. The run will come to a stop where dreams dissolve, and dreams don’t hinge on time or space but on the run itself. Land’s end is but a moving sight, the pathway a circle.

Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who writes in English and whose work has appeared in over 200 literary journals from 16 countries. His fifth original collection, titled The Secret Of Archery, was published in 2019 by Greenwich Exchange Publishing (London). For more information please visit www.alessiozanelli.it.