TO GIOVANNI PASCOLI’s “X AUGUST” POEM, IN BOLOGNA
A journey through painting and poetry
June 2013, Bologna
A new mural in Bologna, dedicated to Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (San Mauro di Romagna 1855- Bologna, 1912).
August 10th
Translation Dia Tsung
Saint Lawrence, I know why so many
shooting stars in the tranquil air
blaze and tumble: it is because of the great weeping
in the glittering vault of heaven.
A swallow was retuning to the roof:
they killed her – she fell among thorns.
She held in her beak an insect,
the dinner for her little ones.
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