a sense of time

Other People’s Poetry: Guiseppe Ungaretti’s "End of Chronos" translated by Andrew Frisardi

End of Chronos (1915)by Guiseppe Ungaretti The strange and frightened momentWanders in the lapOf the firmament. A lilac-tinted smudgeCrowns the mountains, The last outcry to stray. Countless Penelopes, stars The Lord embraces you again! (Ah, blindness!Cave-in of nights . . . ) And offers back Olympus,Eternal flower of sleep. translated by Andrew Frisardi in Selected Poems: A…

February 20, 2012

Joseph M. Gerace

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