Swans Commentary » swans.com December 18, 2006  

 

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by Guido Monte

 

Poetry

 

 

 

 

(Swans - December 18, 2006)  
I'll sleep in a flower of sand
enide sighe men pontos,
while sea is silent—
and in the deep reds of dying sun
sigonti d'aetai, winds are silent—

Dans l'ombre, dans l'ombre humide
spatio brevi spem longam reseces,
in the shade, in one short breath
treasure your long desire

 

 

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Guido Monte teaches Italian and Latin literature in Palermo, Italy. He blends living and dead languages, and ancient and modern poets, in search of deeper relations between different people and cultures. He was born in 1962. You can find more creative writing of his own on happano.org, Words Without Borders, Segue, the multilingual magazine Litterae, and on BlazeVox (PDF file), an online journal of voice.

 

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