We had a set of directions for Assisi.

But as is our custom, not much of a plan.

And a good thing it is, mostly, in my view.

Otherwise we might have hustled past

These stations of the crossways.

From the train stations in the valley,

The hilltowns, above all Trevi & Assisi,

Rise impregnable, like white elephants.

From several kilometers away, easily,

There’s no telling where you will dally;

What Roman gods you’ll find supplanted.

Picture show in development.