Lairs caverns chasmsI who look for
caverns lairs
chasms to explore
and slake this fever
dig in the soil
with my hands, with the pen
what am I looking for
at the bottom of this den?
It may be I’ll unearth
a damp dark basin
in the entrails of the earth
or maybe I’ll snatch
another blue, another sun,
and words from death.
(Translated by Luigi Bonaffini)