28 Saturday Apr 2018
Like this villa, built on Roman remains,
Each excursion brings a change in view.
27 Friday Apr 2018
Posted in Travel
25 Wednesday Apr 2018
“Do you speak English?”
A man asks the waitress.
Yet with his companion,
Our tongue he abandons.
“So where are you from?”
He asks when we’re done.
Well then, “E di dove sei?”
I have to try in return.
When he then joins us
Al nostro tavolo,
Two languages meet
Una linea alla volta.
25 Wednesday Apr 2018
Posted in Travel
Books have yet to learn the means to record the audiovisual.
So you must try to imagine the town officials and lone vet
Standing at attention to the plaintive sound of the trumpet.
Else a silent image stands still to commemorate the original.
24 Tuesday Apr 2018
Posted in Travel
Even in Storia Postale di Spoleto, the companion
Guide to today’s exhibition oddly given in French,
I run into the best picture yet of our destination:
Nothing like our Golden Arches, the silent stones
Down through the centuries unfold a fascination.
23 Monday Apr 2018
Posted in Travel
22 Sunday Apr 2018
Posted in Education
La Montagna Spoletina racchiude in sé millenni di storia religiosa.
1. The Spoleto Mountain {________} millennia of religious history.
1a. racchiudere: to contain
1b. sé: oneself; itself; himself; herself
1c. in: in; to; of; as
1d. racchiude in sé: to contain in itself; or as Bing Translate figures it:
The Spoleto Mountain embodies millennia of religious history.
Le sue peculiarity geografiche … l’hanno eletta spazio privilegiato per la vita di preghiera e meditazione.
2. Best to drop out the interpolated phrase if I hope to find the subject & verb:
2a. Its peculiar geographies … {some self-reflexive action} privileged space for the life of prayer? and meditation.
2b. Loro hanna = They have / Loro hanna eletta = They have elected
2c. Loro l’hanno eletta = They elected her
2d. Loro l’hanno eletta spazio = They have elected space
2e. Its peculiar geographies have made a privileged space for the life of prayer and meditation.
22 Sunday Apr 2018
Posted in Uncategorized
Long we stood, looking across the divide
Without a functioning bridge between us.
Our plans a flop, according to the papers,
It’s time to get back to a study of Italian.
22 Sunday Apr 2018
Posted in Travel
My wife wasn’t really too keen on the idea,
And I’m prone to spoil a full night’s sleep by
Reading and writing. So the trail not taken
Is likely still grassy up on Spoleto mountain.
21 Saturday Apr 2018
Posted in Art
