As/Is







2.22.2007


I'll learn...(E. M.)


Eugenio Montale
Xenia I, from Satura
8
Your broken and unwary word
is the only to sustain me.
But now are changed accents, shades.
I ll learn to feel you, to decipher you
through the teleprinter tappings,
through the variable smoke
of my Brissago cigars
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(photo and transl. by Guido Monte)