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Italianback CORRADO GOVONI
translation from Italian by Paula Bohince
The Rain in February
In this calm rain of February
I see, already shaking from a slight wind,
the grass warbler like gray smoke;
I feel the rhythmic choirs of frogs
and, spinning melodious notes
from his old flute, the slimy toad.
Between pauses and breaths like an empty flower,
in that true story, I hear the voice
of the cuckoo calling love and death. 
Contributor’s notes: Corrado Govoni
Contributor’s notes: Paula Bohince
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