Gorse for five voices

A poem by Chris Holdaway
Drawings by Lucy Meyle
Published November 2013
Edition of 35
ISBN 978-0-4732692-6-5

Moro, e mentre sospiro,
l’aura d’un mio sospiro
corre volando a farsi alma d’un core,
ch’anch’ei sospira e more.
~

I die, and as I breathe my last,
the breath of one of my sighs
takes speedy flight and becomes the spirit of a heart
which then also breathes its last, and dies.