Best Sicily Poems

for George
"You always said you had little invisible friends,"
He wrote in a Christmas card one year, and Yes,
funny he would remember that.  I called them Shovel,
Hoe, and BicaBacaBoca, all of indeterminate gender,
like Arial in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," beautiful
like that, and mysterious.  Like...

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The morning haze lifts off
the clear, blue waters of Sicily and
moves on revealing an azure sky
reflected in the water.
Levels of blue from light to dark
display life forms not seen on land,
with actors performing in a theater under water.
The religious sisters emerge from the convent
out on...

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Italia we strolled the country side throughout 
the villages of Sicily peeking through stone 
ways above garden nooks of Puglia catering to 
the soft and sensual galleries of floral canvases 
that covered scented walk ways gathering the 
divine taste of hidden vines borrowed by rows...

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