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NOCTURNE

( Davide Riccio ITA - Translation by the Author )

 

 

 

                   Stars are dark lanterns

                   that hide Who takes them

and only keep me company

 

Noctuidae

and other buzzing bugs

stupefied with light

 

that never shrewd

madly beat dull blows

in the incandescent table lamp.

The clock on the wall ceaseless

heels with grave steps.

 

Languid, I turn my mind

to my phantasms at midnight,

 

and of time I hear and feel

the chains.