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A view of an intricately decorated ceiling in a castle in Parma Italy depicting a gold sun surrounded by branches of a flowering tree.

When we admit love,
the understory wakes up,
poems are written.

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Yellow sunburst lichen growing on a astle wall in Parma Italy.

Stars on top of stars,
the lives we don’t understand —
breathing in and out.

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Two arched windows above old olive oil barrels in a castle basement in Parma Italy.

Windows become eyes
lit by the green valley light,
barrels become cheeks.

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A closeup of a red poppy bloom in springtime in Parma Italy.

The poppy calls for
pointing for someone to see
spring fields lit with red.

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The shadows of a man and woman walking on a path at night with lights blurred and another couple up ahead of them, walking, blurred, in Parma, Italy.

Big Dipper above,
roses in bloom, we’re a pair —
say goodnight, goodnight.

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A view of a solitary house in the Emilia-Romagna region on a clear spring day.

The day is open,
like a sheet of velvet grass
and hills that shelter.

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A seagull floats against a blue sky in front of colorful buildings in Lerici, Italy.

The gull catches wind
in the colorful village,
just in from the sea.

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A view looking up at the interior of the dome of the Rotonda di San Lorenzo in Mantua, Italy.

In the quiet light
caught nine centuries ago —
dome, gold like Venus.

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A statue of a woman outside at the Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy.

An ear to the past,
an eye to the blue-skied day —
I keep my secrets.

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A view of the sky above a cloister of the Benedictine monastery of St. John the Evangelist in Parma, Italy.

The same square of sky
over prayer and displacement,
for four centuries.

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Statue of a sheep under blue sky and light clouds in front of the Ducal Palace of Parma.

I just need the sun,
the moving sky above me,
and something to trust.

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A view from a castle wall of the Emilia-Romagna in springtime.

The Sunday sky gleams,
laid out like we intended,
blue sinks in to green.

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A plaque on the ground in Lerici, Italy from 1905 with the words on it in Italian: "Oh traveler who passes by in a hurry, stop for a moment, pick a wild flower and say a prayer."

We four travelers,
together by the blue sea,
making our wishes.

"Oh traveler who passes by in a hurry, stop for a moment, pick a wild flower and say a prayer."

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Memorial votive candles lit for those who have died, Parma, Italy.

The future will ask:
did you light candles for us,
think of us at all?

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An image of Mary outside framed by a rough gray frame without glass, dead flowers left as an offering, in Parma, Italy.

Saying the lost names —
how history moves forward,
the ancestor’s job.

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A sky blue building next to a cream-colored building with shutters holding small tin colorful pots and branches in Parma, Italy.

Blue building, blue sky,
small tin pots hung on shutters,
branches reach for May.

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