Annicca si guardò i piedi che sprofondavano nella sabbia morbida. Non pensava fosse così inconsistente. Tirò più su la sottogonna di cotonina bianca; già la pesante gonna scura di orbace era stata avvolta sui fianchi. Ne aveva avuto il permesso dalla madre poco innanzi. A piccoli passetti, con la testa curva come a non perderne nemmeno uno, s'incamminò sulla spiaggia. Affondava con trepidazione reverenziale ad ogni incedere dei piedi in quella superficie calda e impalpabile. Le era preso come il timore di dover essere inghiottita chissà dove, se solo non avesse camminato light.
The small foot at one point began to feel the heat given off by burning those grains. She noticed suddenly that the surface was like charcoal. He ran emitting small cries. The relatives laughed to see her make a fast and broken hops. He stopped where the wave comes to light to find his goal and reflects its threshold. The waves lapping the sand and cool the burning of his feet. It just got a cool charity, and his delicate white feet barely emerged from the grains become gray and very fine at that point. He lifted up the big toe and raised her slender fingers to pry them free and regular.
Poi, come uscendo da un annichilimento temporaneo, sollevò lo sguardo. E lo vide. Lo vide nella sua immensa totalità. Era lì davanti a lei, distesa insondabile, di un azzurro cangiante, si muoveva lento creando onde leggere lievemente spumose. E Annicca pianse. Pianse a singulti prima lievi poi via via più profondi. Pianse davanti al mare Annicca.
Quanto aveva aspettato quel momento, quanto. I grandi occhi sgranati s'incantarono davanti a quella vastità. Non lo immaginava così. O forse sì. Annicca stette, per un tempo interminabile, in questo stato di leggera ipnosi, accompagnata dal movimento lento, regolare, avanti e indietro, avanti e indietro, che cadenzava the calm sea on that day. A quiet sea Anniston had received that day. He felt a strange sensation. No, he did not think this was so. It was a beautiful gift she thought. Yes, just a nice gift for her engagement with the Savior.
'Anniston, then you've decided what you would like as gifts for our engagement? ".
"Yes Savior, one thing I've got to ask, but I'm afraid it sounds crazy, absurd, perhaps dictated by my stupidity."
"A strange thing? Oh God! And what ever I'll be asking Anniston? The moon, perhaps? ".
«No, non la luna Salvatore, ma vedi io ho un desiderio sin da bambina: io vorrei vedere il mare. Andare almeno una volta a vedere il mare».
«Il mare Annicca mia adorata? Il mare.....».
Annicca era arrivata a vent'anni senza mai aver potuto vedere il mare da vicino. Per essere chiari, non l'aveva visto neppure bene da lontano, ma appena intravvisto dall'alto del monte al di là del costone roccioso che puntuto e inaccessibile ne ostacolava la vista. Quando saliva sul monte a pascolare le capre, che le erano state affidate, si protendeva sulla roccia a strapiombo cercando di allungare the neck as he could. Tenace was held strongly to the rock often obtaining sharp scratches and bruises, just to observe a thin line of blue.
The sea was not far from his country, was behind the mountain, beyond the big red basalt ridge that descended shaping sculptural forms imaginative leap in the waves, forming coves and caves.
Annicco the sea as it sensed a powerful presence when autumn came a saline moisture carried by a nervous wind. The felt when hearing the sounds of waves came up trembling and screaming on winter nights. He felt it to his nostrils, smelling of pungent fish and iodine, when the lively spring breeze crossed the summit. The perceived in the summer when warm, salty air caressed her. How envied his goats Annicco that with a jump, they could reach any nook and cranny up there and reach out to the other side. They could go further, higher.
And this desire she had left in my heart, grown in silence because they know that belonged to his own world, women and children at the same time, no one could share in the rural world and practical to which he belonged.
Then he met the Savior, also a servant minister. From the first glance that it had exchanged on the day that their parents had made them know he understood that he would get. Those sparkling eyes and deep that they were peering a bit 'timid, a little' eager, he knew he had a light sensitivity never before seen in those of other men who had hitherto known. Yes, Salvatore would happen.
'Anniston, Anniston, what are you still there? Come on, we are starting to eat. "
"Mama I'm coming, I'll be right."
But it was a response to the breeze dispersed in such a hurry because a faint voice. Anniston continued to be as mesmerized by the motion of the wave, kidnapped by the rhythmic sound of his break, entranced by quell'intorno that resonates with a force never seen before.
movement, thought, Anniston, as only the wind up there on the mountain can do when it moves lightly or rush the trees tremble and makes its own life the green grass in spring.
The party had started at dawn with two large wagons pulled by oxen. The path was not so long but wound up a dusty road leading down to the plains in a myriad of bends. The younger ones would go on foot, some of them on horseback.
had Anniston preso posto seduta davanti sul primo carro, quasi un posto d'onore. Ma non era forse la sua festa? Salvatore era accorso portando racemi di pervinca ed edera che aveva attorcigliato attorno alle assi del carro. Era un modo per sottolineare che quel carro era il più importante. Era il carro della festeggiata.
Quando il gruppo era arrivato sul limitare della spiaggia ognuno si era adoperato per allestire il grande telone che avrebbe riparato tutti nelle ore più calde. Gli uomini ancora vestiti di tutto punto con i pesanti abiti di velluto e i gambali ai piedi issarono i pali di legno e vi legarono le travi orizzontali, mentre le donne vi poggiarono sopra i candidi teli di cotone che fremettero alla leggera brezza mattutina emettendo a vibrating sound.
'Anniston, Anniston, pasta cools down. "
"It is not, it seems kidnapped by a spell."
"Give me the pot, I'll take him there. After all we are here for you, right? ".
"Yes, Salvatore portaglielo you at least eat something."
"Yeah, we're here for you, which of us would have thought of losing a day's work to come to the sea?".
"It 's a bit strange that our daughter. I've always said I! Especially since I heard her speak with the goats. "
"But no, handsome husband, what do you say? Anniston is normal. Maybe it's always been so lonely up there grazing ...».
"Fortunately, now there is no savior, a good guy, you see I love her and that prediction. They will marry and Anniston have other things to think. "
All present agreed that this was true and stated so continuing to eat with their heads in silence. Began to put up with pain that hot.
Annicco took the dish mechanically in his hand without taking his eyes from the sea. Salvatore helped her to sit in a portion of sand where the wave just came. He watched the feet of his beloved, delicate and perfect, mild wave lapped.
She looked up and saw two big tears streaming down her face. But her face was peaceful, could be glimpsed a faint smile touched his lips held tightly by two.
He turned back to see if others were watching them, but made sure that everyone was distracted by dinner. He realized only then that no one even came close to the shore when they were there.
So he took his courage in both hands and put his arm around her slender shoulders. It was the first time. He felt a shudder pass it back. It allowed him to press a bit 'hand down on the side. She did not move, stood staring at the sea. But he felt a slight tremor on her skin, barely audible.
"Thank you Savior, my beloved, thank you for this emotion."
© 2011 Pia Deidda
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