da Il tempo e il Destino  di Giuseppe Mascotti


Arietta

 

 

Arietta

Beautiful in your thirties, the sunny
brightness of an indefinite december
in interlude with pregnant spring
turns to amber in your brown hair.

A moment, a tremor, the eye ravished
contemplates her: there blossoms 
a whole body. Senses dream.



                                 translated by Alberto Sighele