Giorgio Caproni – Araldica / Heraldry

Love, how wounded is the century,
and we are alone — you, me — 
in the nameless grey.
The times of the nightingale
and the lion have ended.
This coat-of-arms is crushed.
The unicorn has left
no tracks on the land:
the Shadow is in the heart.

(Transl. by P. Verdicchio)