Fable and Moral
He fell and died, the skier,
high up there in the snow.
And now, spring having come,
his father leaves his home,
dark in the valley, to throw
a hook in the heavy river.
Paolo Febbraro is a poet and critic. His collections of verse include Il bene materiale (Libro Scheiwiller, 2008) and Deposizione (LietoColle, 2010).