One of my Favourites
“La Vita Nuova”
In that book which is
My memory
On the first page
Of the chapter
That is the day when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
“Here begins a new life”
- Dante, as reimagined by Star Trek, believe it or not.
Someday I want to say this to someone and mean it.
(The real translation is thus: “In that part of the book of my memory before which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, ‘Incipit Vita Nova’.”)