from L’Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Bosco di Couton luglio 1918
Dopo tanta
nebbia
a una
a una
si svelano
le stelle
Respiro
il fresco
che mi lascia
il colore del cielo
Mi riconosco
imagine
passegera
Presa in un giro
immortale
SERENITY
After so much
fog
one
by one
the stars unveil
themselves
I breathe in
the coolness
of that color
the sky leaves in me
I recognize myself
just as a passing
image
Taken on
a ride of immortality
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.
