One summer's night

Summer's dead of night
by the scorched soil among trees
from the gardens waves up heat
gloomy with shadows ...
Drowsiness faded away within the silence
broken by a plight of a far bird.
Come back in remembrance
mislaid sensations
in the slow vanishing
within still of my mind's night
reapperar surfacing my twenties
I thought nuanced into the mist of time
rises intense a scent from the gardens
like happened then.Into the mind resounds
a chant of nigthingale
such in those nights
passed over my books
among dreams and enchantments

Maria Annunziata Bertagnolio

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