Blackbirdan online journal of literature and the artsSpring 2021  Vol. 20  No. 1
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translation from Italian by Paula Bohince

Moon and Dogs

Maybe tonight the dogs,
after barking so much at the moon,
that teardrop in a ditch,
might afterward greedily lick
its bittenness, lying like a bone.  


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