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Sinibaldi, Italy says...
8:06pm Sat 17 Jan 09
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Sinibaldi, Italy says...
7:55pm Sat 3 Jan 09
With fine
manners the
mask of a child
invites me to
cry, when the
moonlight
appears; I hear
a blackbird
near the sound
of a small lamp,
and everything
shines like
a terse sensibility.
Francesco Sinibaldi