Trani

Gradations of yellow and pink on a wall
Offset by green shutters. Snouts of
Elephants jutting from a Romanesque
Façade. Over dressed old men
Gossiping on street corners, animate
Eyes working like bees behind black lenses.

My wife, head on lap, has four white hairs,
Known as canas in the land she comes from.
They’re juxtaposed with a galaxy of black.
We sit in the shadow of the cathedral;
A turquoise Adriatic lollops behind us.
Neither slept last night. She’s reeling from
The ricessa, live fish on the plate.


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