Monday, April 12, 2021

April 12, 2021: "Refuge of Nocturnal Birds" - Salvatore Quasimodo in "Italian Lit. in Transla.", pg. 335

 A Refuge of Nocturnal Birds

High on a cliff there's a twisted pine;
intently it listens into the abyss
with its trunk curved down like a crossbow.

A refuge of nocturnal birds,
in the deepest hours of night it resounds
with the swift fluttering of wings.

Even my heart has a nest
suspended into the darkness, and a voice;
it, too, lies awake listening at night.

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