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The yellow buttercups drink it like my skin drinks it. When they spread their petals I spread my arms. Where the hill makes a shadow between me and sun, I nibble along the hilltop, chewing on sparse bushes. My belly glows...

1 January wind. High above the wheatfield, a large buteo hawk unmoving until, after long seconds, a slight wing flap to hover in place. 2 Me at my desk, and the dog, having raced across wheatfields, sprawled out on the squares...

A Hundred Rainbow Eyes albine plumage fans a watching tale two peacocks blink   Magnetic Pulse in the waiting line ~ i unlatch and relatch the leather tail of my watch in the tiny metallic arc of time   The Cactus Top...

from L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (Poems 1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti from Part 3, Naufragi/Shipwrecked La vita si vuota in diafana ascesa di nuvole colme trapunte di sole   EARLY EVENING Life jettisons itself in the...

from L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (Poems 1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti from Part 3, Naufragi/Shipwrecked Vorrei imitare questo paese adagiato nel suo carmice di neve   TO SLEEP I long to imitate how this country is nestled...

from L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (Poems 1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti from Part 3, Naufragi/Shipwrecked M’illumino d’immenso   Morning The immense light within me...

from L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (Poems 1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti Part 3, Naufragi/Shipwrecked Ma le mie urla feriscono come fulmini la campana fioca del cielo Sprofondano impaurite   Solitude But my screams pain me like...

Every time I’m in New York I look for the leather jacket with 5 holes in the back. Stolen from the morgue. He didn’t look peaceful dead on the slab. Violent death on his face. Not ready to die pain. Bullets slicing through...