Funny how your English fluency comes and goes, bella. But isn't there an
animal missing from your array? A bear, say?
Cheers,
Candice
on 4/22/02 11:48 AM, Erminia Passannanti at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Erminia Passannanti
> (To Romano Luperini)
>
>
> AT NIGHT
>
>
> If it had been
> yours alone
> what unhappy animal
> would have made incursions
> into your dreams
> disturbed your days
> sinking its fangs in the nape of your neck
>
> the anxious restless beech-marten
> the wild cat
> the greedy wolf?
>
> If on your cheek
> and on your exposed chest
> - blue and tearful
> like the body of Christ
> it had left my bite
>
> if before evening
> and before nightfall
> with gasping breath
> - the humble eavesdropper
> at my door
> would have informed you
>
>
> with no possibility of error
> of my true nature
> (that open wound)
> which - except for you -
> neither man nor beast
> would have asked to go
> disarmed to listen...?
>
> Oxford, 20.04.2002
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