AL— It’s hot. We’re exhausted but we walk all day anyway. Scottie and Nelly figured out that if they whine enough, they can ride on my shoulders. Charlie can order food by himself—in Spanish—almost. The kids are all so big now. They miss you more […]
Still Life after seeing DaVinci’s Study of Violets & Welding Methods The twin reading lamps behind the hotel room bed are imitation Ming vases – green and decorated with white curving plumes. Their half shades reflect the light back onto the wood paneling behind […]
I left the ashes today. Walked the 3 miles up from Assisi to Francis’s hermitage. Dug a spot in the woods on the hill under ivy and ferns, and read all the names out loud. Cats, dogs, horses…Francis will have to look after them for […]
Warren: For 14 hours, I was angry that you didn’t come with me. I got to Matera, tired and hungry during siesta. The desk clerk bartered food in exchange for practicing English. At Le Botteghe, a handsome young man, fed me for two hours sharing […]
“Hello, can you help me please,” I implore in my bad German as I skid up to a suited gentleman at a bus stop. He appears startled, and backs further onto the sidewalk. I’m on my Aunt Sieglinde’s garden bike, a sturdy three-speed with no […]
It took a long time to meet you. Forty years ago, a faraway child imagining a chaotic empire of extraordinary danger. Now, alone in a subway, at night, my camera making me feel like a target. You walked toward, past, and up. I exhaled. […]
