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 of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as co-winner in the 2011 Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Contest, and A Bird Who Seems to Know Me: Poems Regarding Birds & Nature (Ex Ophidia Press, 2019), the winner of the 2018 Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Prize.
