Daily Poem: Poem 16 from “18 Poems” ~ Tano Festa
Poem 16 from “18 Poems”
~ Tano Festa
Rome, July 28, 1979
My alabaster forbear
told me
about Georgian
cows
about cold nights
in Leningrad
where the moon is
like a silver
plate
and wind sweeps
snow that
turns to
blue, compact
crystal