I Would Like The Discovery

Poems Give You The Lives Of Others And Then Circle In On Your Own Inner World.

I’ll Always Marvel At The Liveliness Of Southern Speech-so Full Of Metaphor And Hyperbole, Quirks And Vividness.

Any Arbitrary Turning Along The Way And I Would Be Elsewhere; I Would Be Different.

I Find That Other Countries Have This Or This, But Italy Is The Only One That Has It All For Me. The Culture, The Cuisine, The People, The Landscape, The History. Just Everything To Me Comes Together There.

Five Tender Apricots In A Blue Bowl, A Brief And Exact Promise Of Things To Come.