Firenze, A Lifetime Later

Narrated by Kristine Doll

Massachusetts

FIRENZE, A LIFETIME LATER 

‘A cavatina of broken parlando utterances’

punctuated by sighs 

was the sound of the river Arno passing through 

that Tuscan countryside that evening 

as we lay on a grass bank 

trailing our hands in the ochre waters 

as if we were students again 

just hitchhiked down from Paris 

and as if this dream re-enactment

might have the same ending again 

as that first time we 

returned to the same pensione 

and made love in the same camera 

to the dark tremolo of the same doves 

Only this time 

our lives not shaken 

by our coming