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 diaphanous ascent
of clouds filagreed
with quilts of the sun
