12 Thursday Oct 2017
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One by one, the moons fall
Well before we are done
With the final count.
Madness, an impossible
Problem set for ourself:
Who knew what mischief?
Only now, a year later,
Do I discover the error
In the prior bookmaking.
10 Tuesday Oct 2017
Posted in Art
At the Rocca museum is “the Martyrdom of the Saints,”
A fresco I could only manage to misalign as a triptych:
10 Tuesday Oct 2017
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10 Tuesday Oct 2017
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.
09 Monday Oct 2017
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09 Monday Oct 2017
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08 Sunday Oct 2017
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Can’t seem to get Rebecca out for a walk on the Corso.
08 Sunday Oct 2017
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So you can’t hear the marching band that took us by surprise,
Nor see the iPhone hang precariously from my hand overhead,
As the Italian Red Cross “5th Annual Celebration” goes by us.
08 Sunday Oct 2017
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08 Sunday Oct 2017
Just what could I do, but let her have two?