Surrounding me and pouring over me.

Sicilia

(In memory of Salvatore Garrito who was hanged at Reading, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1908, for the killing of a State Trooper.)

“It shows you on that paper where she lives,

In Sicily. Write her that I today

Am dead for having killed my second man.”

“Your second?” “Yes, sir, two. It’s not so bad

To kill a trooper. But I killed, before,

A friend who, like my brother and like me,

Loved her in Sicily. The jury thought