From the very title (“And all is always now”, from Eliot’s Four Quartets), Antonio Prete's verses investigate the status of reality that shows itself beyond the visible order of time. In each instant there is a co-presence of past, present and future. But the co-presence is also further and contemplates the unhappened, the unlived. in vita. The invisible surrounds us. «Una bolla | è il mondo gonfia di niente | che fluttua piano nell'aria | sotto un cielo di stelle spente».