Oliviero Ortodeo – Dormiremo insieme / We’ll sleep together

We’ll sleep together
tonight,
my woman,
in great lust.
We’ll complete what we started time ago,
and never finished.
You and I in an embrace suitable 
for the worst bloodline.
You and I in a martyr kiss
of the worst kind.
Will we end
or will we end to love each other?
Barefoot whores are waiting for me out there,
naked, with no clothes.
Warm excitements await
satisfaction,
under a faint moon.
Meanwhile, you enjoy 
the sweetness of a hot
 summer noon,
and you strongly erupt,
as a blazing flooding river.
Only restrained 
by the snow’s whiteness 
of such a sudden winter
that the heat slaughters
like morning cold.

(Transl. by Dina Foglia)