Journal of Italian Translation

Piazza Nicolai-Merwin-Lecomte-Rosselli-Bigon
Life is what is left
when all has been lost.
It is the dog with three legs
all three straight and strong
and the fourth one ripped from its belly,
it’s the dog’s fourth leg
that no other dog wanted
and the belly doesn’t stop groaning,
and the other three straight and strong.
Life, when all has been lost
and the blame falls on the one who
did not throw the rock, the blind man
who without that singular limb
the leg ripped from the belly
in spite of the others, all three straight and strong
cannot make his own dog return.
°°
The soul of your soul
is an empty useless envelope
the inner matrioska already dried up
a cell with horny scales
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