With Fire

Ungaretti, Giuseppe

With fire in his eyes a homesick wolf

Scours the naked quiet.

All he finds are sahdows of sky on the ice,

Blending evarescent serpents and flickering violets.

Copyright Hudson Review Spring 2002

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