giovedì 15 maggio 2008

Panarea (written last August)




There’s a full moon over Panarea tonight

Constellations of mast-top lanterns mirror the same starts above

That guided Phoenician sailors, ancient astronomers,

Summer seducers and vacationing dreamers

Tonight music, voices and the ripple of waves float up to my patio

from catamarans and velieri swaying in the sepia sea below

Dattilo, Basiluzzo, pipe-smoking Stromboli and proud, isolated trees

sit like cut-out shado in a motionless diorama

Above a dandruff of fades starts watch over sugar cube villas

climb up from the coast like a tropical candy crèche




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