Never knew, for instance, that Gian Carlo asked Lucca first.
Had they agreed to block off traffic, who knows where we’d be.
Ignorant, too, of how much the festival did to develop the city:
Encouraging hotels and restaurants, restorations and shops, along
With the arts and artists that Gian Carlo had resolved to nurture.

Just what could I do, but let her have two?

The first time we are blown away this day by sign
In the middle, saying it should have left by now.

Lucky us: to catch the mix of media, the layers of collage,
As shown here in a sample of the way this texturing works.

Afterwards, we head to our favorite walking spot,
where the wind blows us around as fall comes in.