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Journal of Italian Translation
of animal secretion, a living
plant’s dead fruit,
sated creature, lunar and pale.
(From Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper and Other Poems)
Vignette
Devi sapere che il pensiero è fumo
a fumetti
come un messaggio indiano
dalle cime,
e pneuma la prola soffiata
dalle labbra
nel vetro di Murano
della voce.
Comics
You ought to know that thought is smoke
in bubble speak
like an Indian message
over the mountaintops,
and spirit/pneuma is the word blown
from lips
in the Venetian glass
of the voice.
Fiorentina Russo
St. John’s University.