Monday, January 17, 2022

Giuseppi Ungaretti


 












Vigil

A whole night long
crouched close
to one of our men
butchered
with his clenched 
mouth
grinning at the full moon 
with the congestion
of his hands
thrust right
into my silence
I've written
letters filled with love

I have never been
so
coupled to life
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