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Landscape <strong>of</strong> the Green Lizard<br />
When the green lizard passes by<br />
hedges dress themselves in forest<br />
and unroll to him in front <strong>of</strong><br />
carpets <strong>of</strong> burned stubble<br />
They all turn themselves<br />
when the green lizard passes by<br />
on the coach <strong>of</strong> the serpent<br />
spreading red semaphores<br />
The wind sitting on the walls<br />
fascinates the branches<br />
and their notions dribble Newton<br />
hurrying on crutches<br />
The little children chase each other<br />
behind the clickless lizard<br />
and they wait for him<br />
on the hammock in the night<br />
the terminus <strong>of</strong> the equation<br />
where the sun doesn’t know how to be a star<br />
because he doesn’t know the night<br />
or the moon how to be a goddess<br />
because she doesn’t know the lizard<br />
The green lizard that passes by<br />
on the coach <strong>of</strong> the serpent<br />
spreading red semaphores<br />
English transations by Michael Palma<br />
<strong>Poets</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Italian Diaspora<br />
Edited by Luigi Bonaffini and Joseph Perricone<br />
Fordham University Press New York 2014
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