Poem: ‘S’i’ fosse’
Charles Bernstein, 17 December 2015
after Cecco Angiolieri (Siena, c.1260-1312)
If I were fire, the world’d burn; if I were wind, there’d be tempests at ev’ry turn; if I were water, watch earth drown; if I were God, I’d smash it all to worms. If I were Pope, to hell with moral compass, the christians’d all be flung into a...
