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In the sixth grade, Sister Jane Leo showed a film about the Holocaust. At recess, I kept looking at my hand. I couldn’t stop my thoughts about the tips of fingers poking from the ground as a dozer pushed a wave of dirt over it....

Forged, in the foothills of the Pyrenees On olive and spring fields, His shadow splays Bearing love and fanciful tyrannies Under the anxious pulse of the summer rays He kindles emerald and gold meadows Castles and cathedrals...

When Art and Fear clamor for our faint hearts Thunder huffs and lightning shrieks inside us Rhythmic dances revive songs of love lost Choose one silence the other, cry tired souls Select the Art of the sycamore tree Mottled by...

From L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (Poems 1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti Part 2, Porto Sepolto/The Buried Port C’era Una Volta Quota Centoquarantuno l’I agosto 1916 Bosco Cappuccio haun declivio di vellutoverde come una dolce...

From L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (Poems 1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti Part 2, Porto Sepolto/The Buried Port Fratelli Mariano il 15 luglio 1916 Di che reggimentosiete fratelli? Parola tremante nella notte Foglia appena nata...

From L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (Poems 1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti Part 2, Porto Sepolto/The Buried Port Risvegli Mariano il 29 giugno 1916 Ogni mio momento io l’ho vissuto un’altra volta in un’epoca fonda fuori di me Sono...

Glass treasure chest, a golden dream, Bids me to come and look. They wait, alas, you have not seen My heart spread like a book For you to read and love and take The words where’er you go. I trust my thoughts to someone whom I...

This year, we, the people, Wept. Every cheek streaked with tears Not one heart left whole To watch the sun darken Yesterday and ignite tomorrow The heartbeat of the World slowed, stopped. Each breath of ripe, unbottled air More...