When the local bar is not busy,
i cornetti are served up heated.
A Sidebar
06 Monday May 2019
Posted in Travel
An Unfair Comparison?
06 Monday May 2019
Posted in Education
Rome’s Il Messaggero (so far as I know)
Is nothing more than an “ordinary paper.”
Every day, it prints all the news that fits
In two sections of sixty some-odd pages.
Except the thing is there’s no shrink-wrap
Of time/life the way we do it in the states.
What paper of ours would consider it news
When a Danish philosopher has a birthday?
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- What’s more iconic: a) the bite, or b) the Munch?
A follow up: What’s more iconic: a) the bite, or b) the Munch?
A Little Dab Will Do You
06 Monday May 2019
Posted in Travel
Hardly much more than a drop:
the way it looked before it spread
around the far side of the saucer.
Again Grazia heads to replace it.
“No, not…” Rebecca starts to say,
before putting her at ease in Italian.
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- Smaller than it looks
Good to the Last Drop
05 Sunday May 2019
Posted in Travel
A sloshed coffee cup, it turns out,
Is a sign of sloth in more than one
Cappuccino joint. Not good enough
Unless it stays put to the last drop.
Festival Reception Center
04 Saturday May 2019
Posted in Art
With posters that mark each stage of our journey.
With a few thrown in for much further reflection.
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- The first time ever we saw her face
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- The last time one trip was ever enough
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- One of our favorite posters of all time
Best of the Billboard Charts?
04 Saturday May 2019
Posted in Art
Another Lesson in the Making
04 Saturday May 2019
Posted in Education
Search Google all that U want.
It takes an accomplished hand,
Sometimes, to take the measure
Of a decidedly foreign technology.
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- More or Less of This and That: Real Moka Pot Lore
Un Buon Compleanno
03 Friday May 2019
Posted in Food
Since last cold season held us in its bleak grip,
We held my annual party at Cantina de’ Corvi.
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- Four dishes split two ways
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- Lovely dish divided “unevenly”
Friends Teach Us a New Word
02 Thursday May 2019
Cena, the Italian word for dinner
Apperitivi, name for the tidbits before
Put the two together, as we learn tonight from friends,
And you have the best of both possible culinary worlds:
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- A lesson that is reinforced by the word on a poster we had never seen before
Behind Teatro Romano
01 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in Art
