Navona [night] at the time of the visions ● Borromini, Borromini, you're now thinking about an ascending spiral initium sapientiae ● (correcting your drawings with charcoal and sanguine) ●  ●  ● the architect has the keys to the construction site: he sometimes goes there late at night (to meditate on it ● absorbed dimentico di sé)

Sant'ivo, steps: it's the arduous insomnia, faithful companion ● a compass, the palm of the hand, a notebook of suspensions, of cadences ● of fullness and emptiness, of hunger and thirst, of voice and silence, of going and staying ● thought in the night (thought is the night)

moon entangled between the roofs ● soror noctis ● the mind balancing the weights ● weighing the protrusions ● throwing courage far beyond the paradigm ● Borromini, Borromini your secret eye in the turgidity of the dark

probing the silence ● crossing the sound of silence ● vanishing ● dark and thought ● thought and fire ● (dense) ● it's night above Rome [above you]

: few needs: ● some books ● your naked mind ● lonely returning from Navona to Popolo in the morning (very early) ● looking at the first light that is breaking out above Rome ● now ● initium sapientiae?
Antonio Devicienti, born in Salento (south east of Italy), is a writer and literary critic.
​His websites are Via Lepsius (www.vialepsius.wordpress.com) and Via Lepsius Asemic (www.vialepsiusasemic.wordpress.com).