--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Plus Ernst Junger was a way better writer than
> anybody
> at the Weekly Standard. ;) Seriously, hasn't anybody
> read any fascist writers? They were very un-Bushy.
>
See? What Bushie could write something like this? ;)
Summer was Naked
Translated from the Italian by Diane Mehta
First of all I saw her foot race through
the scorched pine needles
while the storm-lashed air trembled
as if an effusion of white flames.
Cicadas fell silent. The brooks
churned, they became more raucous.
Resin ran copiously, lamenting, down the tree trunks.
I recognized the scent, a hint, of the garden snake.
I caught up with her in the olive grove
and ran through the sky-blue shadows of the branches
on her curved spine and her tawny hair
in the silver Palladium soundlessly fly across.
Further on, in the stubble of landscape
the skylark lept from a smooth furrow,
it sung her name to the heavens.
I, too, called her name then.
Among the oleanders she turned
like a bronze-colored harvest in the reeds
she thunderously entered.
Further on, along the beach,
her foot got tangled in seaweed.
She fell, stretched out between sand and water.
The west wind foamed in her hair.
She appeared immense, immense her nakedness.
Note: Gabriele D'Annunzio, born in 1863, was an Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist known for works that combine naturalism, symbolism, and erotic imagery. His colorful life included an affair with world-famous actress Eleanora Duse, a stint in Parliament, military heroism, fascist sympathies, and dictatorship over the town of Fiume, which he and loyal troops occupied for eighteen months. He died in 1938 and was given a state funeral by Mussolini.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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