Ruby Street

Questa sfera arida parte ogni discorso e ogni poema; e ogni viaggio attraverso foreste battaglie tesori banchetti alcove ci riporta qui, al centro d'un orizzonte vuoto. "From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us back here, to the centre of an empty horizon." Italo Calvino , The Castle of Crossed Destinies (translation by William Weaver)

"The poetry of the invisible, of infinite unexpected possibilities - even the poetry of nothingness - issues from a poet who had no doubts whatever about the physical reality of the world." Calvino - on Lucretius, from Six memos for the next millennium .

Belatedly, I should note: Issue Number Five of Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks wherein, amongst many others, are these poems , and nthposition wherein these poems .