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| Chamisso-Platz 39 x 29 cm |
FINALE
LIGURE*
Guess what
comes from this place? Here follows the Birth of Pesto:
fresh basil
and olive oil plus garlic crushed with a pestle
in a deep
narrow bowl and
mixed with
pasta then sprinkled with old parmesan,
on the
table a fiasco of Vino Rosso di Toscana,
not a fine
wine but a very robust one, yes, a muscular robust
wine of the
earth rather than of the air—which is
doggerel a
semi-poetic wine dealer might recite—
the stucco
façade of the ancient farm house
peeled back
in places
to reveal
its
original brick sub-structure,
decay does
wonders for some buildings,
fireflies
bobbing and weaving above the lawn
on hot
summer evenings, sun-drunk boxers, the thickness of trees
and ivy
hanging
heavily as
if held there
by the dark
yellow and purpling light. Sometimes
it’s hard
to believe that we are a part of all this gorgeous stuff,
we sit back
and try to be satisfied
with our
good fortune but it feels like
television
somehow, a story
belonging
to someone else,
though in a
way similar to us,
an actor
mired in middle-age, say, walking
through a
cool, high ceilinged room
forgetting
his lines, tripped up by a carpet,
knocking
over an expensive vase, spooking the cat, and thinking perhaps
that decay
doesn’t do wonders for most people, not in this life.
*Finale
Ligure is a small town on the Italian Riviera.
Vivaldi's Concerto No.2 in G minor "Summer" 3rd Movement
Nigel Kennedy performs "a la Citadelle", 2005, France
with the Polish Chamber Orchestra
Nigel Kennedy performs "a la Citadelle", 2005, France
with the Polish Chamber Orchestra
