Andrew Frisardi

I

Yo non soy yo. —Juan Ramón Jiménez

How odd to find I am not what I am

And can’t take off my own disguise.

I’m soluble in what I crystalize:

A waterway of me, a dam.

Who wrote Be nothing and you’ll be with God?

Oh, I remember: Me. How odd.

Andrew Frisardi is a poet, critic, independent Dante scholar, and translator from Boston, living in central Italy.