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Soapbox orators incessant, Impervious to introspection, Abhorrent of pause, Commune with replicas To quarantine diverse thought. These omnipresent talking heads Flourish in their world where Silence and listening are forbidden....

Tedium tic-tocs, toc-tics… Wishing to pull the covers over my head, Like when I was a child, I fantasize about this magical, impenetrable protection, Fairy guarded hiding me from the monotony The treadmill of the mundane And the...

1. Lessons of childhood Like a wolf, I chose hunger until the odds improved. I learned to hold my words like a hand of cards; small fingers, ravaged nails, gripping scheming. To prevent spoilage, I swallowed needs like mother’s...

Light through large northern and southern exposed windows make the high-ceilinged house a chapel. The kind of light that turns a face into a portrait, cheeks lineated by shadow. As we enter the hallway midway between windows, we...

(Sunken Palace Cistern, Istanbul) The waters are still, not still. They ripple with sleek gray fish cruising in silent curves among the shadows, between shafts snapped to attention: Justinian legions still. Cool air moves too....

that keep their shape before dissolving into rheumy mites, are pregnant with cancelled dreams. Peer as we might what lies there are our pygmy wishes. More light, the poet on his deathbed said, let in more light pink fingerlings...

In socket and ball Vesalius saw a grand design — from intricate flexed knees inferred a Jeweler filigreeing worlds. Pound viewed askance such memes: beneath seen forms perceived blind anguish multiplying — clocks...

From L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti Part 1, Ultime/Latest Un occhio di stelle ci spia da quello stagno e filtra la sua benedizione ghicciata su quest’acquario di sonnambula noia   In the Gallery...

from Sentimento del Tempo, 1919-1935 Scade flessuosa la pianura d’acqua. Nelle sue urne il sole Ancora segreto si bagna. Una carnagione lieve transcorre. Ed ella apre improvvisa ai seni La grande mitezza degli occhi. L’ombra...

from Sentimento del Tempo, 1919-1925 Gioventu impietrita, O statua, o staua dell’abisso umano . . . Il gran tumulto dopo tanto viaggio Corrode uno scoglio A fiore di labbra.   Statue 1927 from Sentiment of Time, 1919-1925...

From L’Allegria/Cheerfulness (1914-1919) by Guiseppi Ungaretti Part 1, Ultime/Latest Anche le tombe sono scomparse Spazio nero infinito calato il mio compagno arabo che s’e ucciso l’altra sera Rifa giorno Tornano le tombe...