The Banishment
Ma fu’ io solo, là dove sofferto
fu per ciascun di tòrre via Fiorenza,
colui che la difesi a viso aperto
Blemishes age
The Arno tonight
The lamps on the bridges
Piledrive light
Kinky bright krisses
Bent new pin
Opal portcullises
Lychees in gin
Bean-rows of breakable
Stakes going in
Chinese brass burnishes.
Pearlshell caskets
Tumble plunder
Soft rose ledges
Give, go under
Bolts of lame
Fray
Sunder.
If you open slowly
Eyes half crying
That whole flowing
Blurs like dying
Chi’en-Lung
Colours
Run.
Pinking scissors
Choke on velvet:
Cut-throat razors
Rust in claret.
fu per ciascun di tòrre via Fiorenza,
colui che la difesi a viso aperto
Blemishes age
The Arno tonight
The lamps on the bridges
Piledrive light
Kinky bright krisses
Bent new pin
Opal portcullises
Lychees in gin
Bean-rows of breakable
Stakes going in
Chinese brass burnishes.
Pearlshell caskets
Tumble plunder
Soft rose ledges
Give, go under
Bolts of lame
Fray
Sunder.
If you open slowly
Eyes half crying
That whole flowing
Blurs like dying
Chi’en-Lung
Colours
Run.
Pinking scissors
Choke on velvet:
Cut-throat razors
Rust in claret.