Venice masks

Wednesday 16 March 2016

Once upon a Time - Giuseppe Ungaretti

Bosco Cappuccio
has a slope
of green velvet
like a soft
comfortable chair.

I dozed there,
alone
in a far-off coffee house
in a faint light
like that
of this moon.

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) Italy
Translated by A.S. Kline

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