Verga, Boccioni and a Glimpse

That tale by Verga:
the one of a triangle
ending badly with the
loser lover knifed to death
crying out with his last breath for …
was it his mother?
All this remembered story –
its starkness
its raw
19th century Italian countryside
filmed in
cinéma vérité prose:
All this in a Boccioni augenblitz.

Source: Metropolitan Museum

Accession #: 1990.38.4

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