On to Bologna

 

On unknown track sit facing back.

Hay stacked to peaks.

High peaks in stacks.

Well-ordered stone

in river breaks

and laid in walls

that masons make.

Screach

in bending.

Screach

in halting.

In Vergato.

Out Pistoia.

Routed through on to Bologna.

Shutters open.

Shutter shutting.

Woodland closing.

Field unfolding.

Lightness follows darkness always.

Eighteen tunnels.

Nineteen passing.

Precise account of passage past

yet never know which dark is last.

On to Bologna

Bob Komives

(a 1993 ride on the Porrettano railway from Pistoia to Bologna)

Fort Collins © 1995 :: On to Bologna :: ,9520

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