- negativeson a sunny Saturday
you smiled into the lightI caught
your lips
in negativeI keep them in a drawer
to develop them
on a rainy Sunday

- when you smilethe light in your eyes
lights up rooms
I thought were empty

- two timeswe set out alone,
to meet each other
by chancegrains of sand
brushing
at the middle of the hourglass

- oceanI have spoken
five languages
crossed
fifty bordersone drop still missing
from my ocean

- assenzaper Natale sono tornato
straniero
a casa miala maniglia della porta
freddaanticipava l'assenza
che mi aspettava
a fuoco spento

- décalage horaireun voyage vers l'est
notre rencontrele coucher de soleil nous a surpris
en avance

- pescheil muro scrostato
del casale in collinale mie giovani dita
seguono le crepe
sporche del succo
delle pesche più dolci
di tutta la mia infanzia

night vision is a collection of fragments written late at night, when the day fades, and only what matters remainsin the dark, details fall away: what’s left is the outline of thingseach poem began in italian and was borrowed by the language in which it felt most trueno name, for now