From Tuscany, with Mamma Mia!

 

Adesso dormi, amore mio

It’s almost mezzanotte on your side of the world

And I believe you never completely understood me

Remember our own side of the world

the flowerless balcony

the rented room

“You don’t love me anymore” you said scherzando

then poured some cheap flavorless wine

in our two cheap stolen wine glasses

and on that night

di luna piena

you had already lost me

you did the best you could

caro mio

but I’m not coming back

to orthodoxism, rented rooms, flavorless wine, mediocre nights and you

don’t wait for me

please, not a moment more

I don’t belong there anymore

Io non torno più

from my summer hallucination

where I get lost on narrow streets on red and light pink Vespa scooters

watch wild flowers bloom at my window every morning

and the bambini come to play in Piazza dell’Amfiteatro di Lucca every day

at exactly 6 a’clock in the afternoon

at night, before I fall asleep, I stare at the moon

Yesterday

I had watermelon slices wrapped in prosciutto crudo for breakfast,

pistachio gelato for lunch

and gnocchi with pesto and parmigiano for dinner

went for a long passeggiata

and found peace in an empty small catholic church called “San Miniato al Monte”

where I stood in silence

and prayed

I’m visiting Siena and San Gimignano

tomorrow

and maybe love me some gorgonzola sandwitches on one of those red and white tablecloths

in Manarola

some Montepulciano wine

of course I’ll think of things

from time to time,

then drink more wine

I’ll smell of grilled calamari I polpettine in a small ristorante

by the sea

and in Tuscan piazzette

under suspended lampari

in the old Tuscan patois

paisani serenaders

and the saddest pagliacci

will serenade me

Adesso dormi, amore mio

It’s almost mezzanotte on your side of the world

Don’t wait for me,

I’ve changed

under the Tuscan sun

on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea

i’m finally home

Adesso resto qui

Abracci from sunny Italy