Most Ticklish Celebrity

About Time

I
TIME

Antonia Pozzi

While you sleep

the seasons pass on the mountain.

The snow at the top gives
drooping
life in the wind
the lawn behind the house talking, drinking

light footsteps of rain on the trails. While you sleep


years of sun pass between the tops of the larches

and clouds.

II

I can gather the lilies of the valley while you sleep

because I know where they grow.

And my real home with its gates and its stones
is away, I
or more venues, but

go wandering through the woods
eternally -
while you sleep and

lilies grow unabated.

May 28, 1935