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I didn’t quite understand what came to be inevitable about my world It was grey – the sidewalks, the streets, the buildings, even the schools My ball field was a paved square in front of the school’s windows Even with the...

from L’Allegria Versa il 15 febbraio 1917 Lontano lontano come un cieco m’hanno portato per mano   DISTANCE Far away far away like a blind man they took me by my hand Wally Swist’s books include Huang Po and the Dimensions...

from L’Allegria Versa il 16 febbraio 1917 Sto addossato a un tumulo di fieno branzato Un acre spasimo scoppia e brulica dai solchi grassi Ben nato mi sento di gente di terra Mi sento negli occhi attenti alle fasi del cielo...

from L’Allegria Versa il 18 febbraio 1917 Mi sento la febbe di questa piena di luce Accolgo questa giornata come il frutto che si addolcisce Avro stanotte un roimoso come un latrato perso nel deserto   DIVERSION I feel the...

from Vallone il 18 aprile 1917 La mia sqauallida vita si estende piu spaventata di se In un infinito che mi calca e mi preme sol suo fievole tatto   ALWAYS NIGHT My squalid life extends more frightened than itself In an...

If the conflict in Vietnam was a dragon, then America in the ’70s was a lovely green-eyed girl. A strawberry-blonde, pretty and tall, riding her older brother’s yellow ten-speed hands-free. Coasting down the street from my home,...

The house that once stood next to ours was often empty and the lawn overgrown. We were ever so pleased to have new neighbors, though they shied away and wished to be left alone. A stranger would think there was a dispute between...

so hoarse I didn’t recognize. Not only have I hurt you but each day it takes the healing means you must love me less.

We’ll do the things we always want to but don’t, go where we mean to but won’t. Take in the sites the tourists seem to like and take the time to wonder why.