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…