Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who has long adopted English as his artistic language and has published widely in literary magazines around the world, including California Quarterly, Dream Catcher, First Class, Italian Americana, Mattoid, Orbis, Other Poetry, Poesia, Potomac Review and Poetry Salzburg Review.
It is as difficult as desirable
to fix circles in the water.
Once cast the stone
the hand has just withdrawn
and already the ripples are fading,
the circles die out away from the center.