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Birds never look down,
Their boat-shaped mouths
Let the vowels out,
Absent from all the photographs
I’ve done,
Were they even in the sky?
I lower my eyes:
Have no stronger wish
Than that I shall kiss tight
Your boat-shaped mouth.
Can’t do anything
But love.
Painting “Principio speranza”, cm 120×64 by Sara Maino 2021
