Journal of Italian Translation

Pasquale Verdicchio/Giorgio Caproni
So, straining,
shouted, shut in, the madman.
(Was, his ruined reason,
the only Thing not lost?)
Unaware
He was under the illusion,
having found the accurately lost object again,
of having gained something.
It was a momentary joy.
troubled.
And he was left
Almost
like someone who suddenly finds himself
stripped of an income.
(He,
unaware that anything found again
is - always - a loss.)
.................. a shadow
that shakes the hand of shadow
of another shadow . . .
The Agreement
(In shadow. . .)
Two shadows that without leaving a shadow
of a shadow, in the shadows
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