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From Scraps


usable, greasy, gray
days: eggwhite in which to drown, my hypocrite
reader, my brother
: eggwhite that scrambles
every standard bearer


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spring-driven devil the clock
watches us (you, lover, pick up
passion and dress like lightning)
: a policeman slips out
of the enchanted plaster


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prostrated (you on the perch
I on myself), we twaddle
to each other: I ask you if the mud
that splatters us is dark or light: you ask
if I’m jaundiced like the other parrots

Contributor

Mariano Bàino

Mariano Bàino has published the following books of verse: Camera Iperbarica (1983); Fax giallo (1993, 2001); Ônne 'e terra (1994, 2003); Pinocchio (moviole) (2000); Sparigli marsigliesi (2000, 2003); Amarellimerick (2003); Prova d'inchiostro e altri sonetti (2017). His prose works include: Le anatre di ghiaccio (2004); L'uomo avanzato (2008); Dal rumore bianco (2012); In (nessuna) Patagonia (2014).

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