A N D R E A Z A N Z O T T O
______________________________________TWO POEMS
Translated by Wayne Chambliss
Subnarcosis
Birds
raw endless chirping
on a cold black branch
something raw
not true perhaps, but only
the announcement of some possible
child-like, inhuman
though certainly for those of us listening
– alarmed – far off
– becalmed – far off
birds a whole city
teeming closed
glories of glottises
of acumens and traps of doctrine
a closed si-si-significance
not even child-like but
adult occult in its austerity
[scattered species of my sleep
never to return].
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