The sun on this September afternoon
is not quite what it might have been in June,
but hot enough. My barman’s chatting on,
while somewhere, some lopsided carillon
is clanging tunelessly. I’m in the square
of San Francesco in Arezzo, where
I’ve longed to be for years. Rome’s far behind
(in fact it’s hard to summon Rome to mind,
albeit I was there not long ago.)
Tranquillity! I almost feel as though
I’ve plunged in freezing water. And the sight
of fiesta flags, inflamed by evening light
can make the heart start pumping. It’s too late
(for me) to learn to free-associate,
but what feels right, is right. I’m in a groove,
and who can say if I will ever move
from this precise position? Favourite pen,
a fine coarse notebook and “remember when” …
can life improve on this? When things combine,
we feel we’ve touched the hem of The Divine:
perhaps I’m heading for a nuclear fall,
but sunlight slanting on that craggy wall
is just as good as (better than, perhaps)
a coffee in that place from “Google Maps”.
Until I found Palazzo Guillichini
Gregorio, life’s classic “in-betweeny”
was lost to me: but I, “traquer le lièvre”,
can get the story from the cause célèbre.
Categories:
gregorio, future, remember,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
C-larity
H-as
A-lready
R-elieved
L-onely
E-vening's
N-ook
E-ndorsing
G-reat
R-adiant
E-arly
G-low
O-f
R-ays
I-n
O-penness
Topic: Birthday of Charlene Gregorio (August 14)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
gregorio, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
M-essage
H-as
A-lways
L-et
O-ne
U-se
G-ood
R-egards
E-xpressing
G-reat
O-de
R-hymed
I-n
O-penness
Topic: Birthday of Mhalou Gregorio (July 28)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
gregorio, birthday,
Form: Acrostic