Waning Moon

A translation of Mario Dell’Arco’s
“Luna calante”

Pendant around the neck of night:
ringed by Taurus, Capricorn,
Ursa Major on the rise
before so many fiery eyes
little by little, whittles to a horn.

—Marc Alan Di Martino

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