Lamberto Coccioli

A Poem, para G lor ia

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© 1992

now air is air and thing is thing:no bliss

of heavenly earth beguiles our spirits,whose

miraculously disenchanted eyes

live the magnificent honesty of space.

Mountains are mountains now;skies now are skies

and such a sharpening freedom lifts our blood

as if whole supreme this complete doubtless

universe we’d(and we alone had)made

-yes;or as if our souls,awakened from

summer’s green trance,would not adventure soon

a deeper magic:that white sleep wherein

all human curiosity we’ll spend

(gladly, as lovers must)immortal and

the courage to receive time’s mightiest dream

e.e.cummings, no. 3 from 95 Poems (1958)

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