ZANZOTTO / Fosfeni
Andrea Zanzotto
from Fosfeni (Milano: Mondadori, 1990)
translated by Pasquale Verdicchio
Squaring-off the page
This is how it happens, like this pedaling -
pedal on the edge on the lip on the corner
while pebbles intervene and shadows too
fluttering from the aspen and valued green by green
Pedal, foot against foot
and leg against leg,
bone, pedaling, entangles tarsus and shins
Falls of butterflies sponsor you,
at the encounter in counter direction proceed
pedal and press and breathless worse than during birth
among bright birthings of suns like butterflies
and among birthings of butterflies soft comments
Pedal and press like inside a large grape
and bend over all the grapes
in front of you, mundane, make-over fidelity
Recover recover and give
prize, is at a premium beyond the anxieties and carnality:
elsely press sweet from sour from lucrative thefts
Pedal without trilling that no-one
the jumping flight on the gravel among butterflies
will impede anyone
The squaring-off of the page has begun -
by kicks well pedaled.
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