Piazza delle Cinque Scole, 2017
The tiny restaurant Sora Margherita issues orders secretly to the piazza. She is to the piazza what Sam’s dog was to David Berkowitz. Now, she pretends indifference to the hail, as if she had nothing to do with it. She sits quietly, changing colors as she now does (last year
This City
Quick, go to the window! You'll see this city. Creeping by in the moonlight in the streetlight in the stony street. It's full of people making noise but it is silent, a silence that is regal or bewildered, as if it glides by in a silent gown or is simply overwhelmed by itself. There is nothing as beautiful as a city except for this
Rich With History
It should come as no surprise that Rome is a dusty city. All those tumbling fragments, the withdrawal of the water after a flood leaving behind a silt-filled city, the centuries of statues chopped to powder to transform gods and fauns into lime for cement. And not just statues, but