The Innocence of Objects on Lemon Trees: “See, in these silences in which things yield and seem about to betray their ultimate secret. —"Lemon Trees," Eugenio Montale (epigraph, translated by Irma Brandeis)”
How to be both on The Eel: “green spirit seeking life where only drought and desolation sting; spark that says that everything begins when everything seems charcoal — Eugenio Montale / Jonathan Galassi (epigraph; the poem is “The Eel”)”