Florence, Or Something Like It
Reflecting’s become a quiet art
the past a film I play in part,
fog on glass, a softened view
of what was real, and what I knew.
Baz and I, we trade old scenes,
between the lines and all in-betweens.
We speak of dreams, of wounds once raw
and wonder what the mind once saw.
For all my years (or so I claim),
Italy has called and called my name.
Florence, in her golden light
a place I’ve wanted day and night.
But ask me why? The thread runs thin.
No tale of how it did begin.
I search the past, yet nothing sticks
no spark, no moment, no quick fix.
And still, my memories often gleam
what I wore, or what I dreamed.
The way my father’s voice would land,
the grip of shame, the sting, the stand.
I trace the path to who I am,
each mark, each bruise, a telegram.
But Florence? There, the script runs dry
a hunger with no reason why.
I see the Ponte Vecchio’s grace
Having once stepped foot in that magical place.
I love pasta, sure—but more than that,
it’s like I wear the wrong format.
Born in a land that fits too tight,
I reach for things often out of sight.
Perhaps the mystery’s what I crave
a different life I never gave.
Why write it now? Because I stare
at Florence stacked in quiet air,
her book above Pompeii’s red dust
a shrine of longing, love, and rust.
And as I wonder what’s been spun,
what stories we repeat just for fun
I start to think, perhaps they’re true,
the myths we make, me and you.
For what is memory, if not a thread
we stitch into the life we’ve led?
A softened truth, a silent shelf
a tale we tell to know ourselves.
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