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Brief fervour wherein I recognize myself
surviving everywhere, everywhere you set
fire to my already leprous eye; not on all
the surface of the earth, not anywhere
but only where you find me again today
where my heart chose you very delicate
love who open like a valley with a shiver
of coolness with drops and allusive light
with poor mirrors in the soul. This is Sanziana
the one with the eyes of a dark blue kept
tightly closed and with the ferocious mouth
remembering fragments of her past
with details forgotten or put in their place
in wrong order “TAIL” amid “THE TRIANGLE”
on dusty and badly illuminated shelves,
this is she. She was speaking about art,
about love, about the difference between
the dream and the wakefulness. She knew
nothing nonetheless she would swoop on you
as would a blue serpent with a yellow flat head
if you asked her: why everywhere the fraud
this financial speculation, this turpitude
exhibitionism on all beds everywhere the weakness,
the treason, the mess. Out of her mouth breaks
a sentence like a chain, “The song has died in you
and no god lives here, everywhere you hear
the shout from the belly, “Good hiccup
to the relatives!” This turpitude that wants
to tranquillize us, “All’s well!” I stay for ever
and in vain, in vain do I speak today. My only
food?” Sanziana looks askance at me
amid the campanulas.