WITHIN
for Aditi Mangaldas [poem from my forthcoming book, THE WHISPERING ANKLETS] You emerge — from within darkness, your face...
DANTE ALIGHERISestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni
On this day 700 years ago, the poet Dante Alighieri died. * DANTE ALIGHERI Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni (translated by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI) To the dim light and the large circle of shade I have clomb, and to the whitening of the hills, There where we...