CAPRI LEONE - ALCARA LI FUSI "FLY BY NIGHT" BUS SERVICE.

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On current trends this service will only operate about once in 30 years - the driver has to get permission and may not yet know the way. He's working on it. It is believed that a number of London "Bus Stops" have also made their FLY BY NIGHT journey to bella Sicilia. What a fate!

"LASCARI CHAMPAGNE"

LASCARI CHAMPAGNE

I lay in the sea at Lascari
the rushing tide foaming into
my cupped hands
bubbling like Champagne
my last evening here
so I’m saddened
never mind, next year
I will come back again!
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(Lascari. 21 July 2001).

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GIOVANNI NAPOLI's SMALL WOOD.

Ah GIOVANNI NAPOLI's small wood (top photo) located along the GANGI > BIVIO COMUNELLO > MISTRETTA road (for an indexed locations map click >here<) lies at about 3 hours walk beyond Gangi - with a rest at BIVIO COMUNELLO (>here<).

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It is a very peaceful beautiful spot as the photographs attest to. In one foto 2 of Giovanni's dogs are shown taking their ease. One very strange doggy habit - they had the habit of hunting down and devouring human faecies and so desperate measures were resorted to to bury them securely.

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I spent a number of beautifully peaceful summer days and nights holed up here en route to further afield destinations. Future posts to this blog story will further spotlight this location. Giovanni Napoli had a home in GANGI and was reasonably at ease and hospitable about my stop-overs at this location.

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ALL DAY I'D BEEN WALKING - a poem.

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ALL DAY I’D BEEN WALKING

A busy city intersection.
It could have been
Hyde Park Corner,
Marble Arch,
Place De La Bastille,
or Piazza Barberini,
but wasn’t.

I was on foot
or at least
I think I was!
Suddenly there was this terrible screaming,
traffic came by
it passed before me
very close, from the left,
then just turned after slowing
just a little
the way traffic often does
as it converges en masse
into a bend.

The sceaming
was from a young woman
totally flung out
from an open backed lorry
flung out of the Driving Cab
from the nearside -
she was hanging on
her grey coat
trailing and flailing.
She was screaming.

Nobody was at the wheel!
Somehow the lorry jostled
and negociated the bend
of its own will –
or wheel – choose for yourself
how you’d like to express it.
And then the traffic, the lorry
with the woman,
gathered speed
and sped on very fast.

The screaming went on and on.
Shocked and exasperated
I said to someone:
“Why didn’t one of the
other cars or several
of them slow down
and stop, then the lorry
would have been boxed in,
and brought to a halt”.
A woman said: “Yes,
there would have been
a bump, but it could have worked”.
I could still hear the woman’s terrible screams
trailing on and on and on...

And then I woke up
in long luxurient grasses
under an Almond tree.
Dawn was breaking.
It was 5 a.m.
Through the leaves
there was just the rustle
of a gentle breeze,
no traffic, no woman screaming.
All day, a Sunday,

I’d been walking, marvelling
at the incredibly peaceful, traffic free
Sicilian country roads.
And now this!

(Towards Cerda. 7 July 1997. Notebook page 129).

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PETRALIA SOTTANA - VIA CALZOLAI's "D.C.A" - A POEM.

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VIA CALZOLAI "DCA" - a Petralia Sottana poem that among other things celebrates the Sicilian sunshine.

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SUB AQUARIAN SICILIAN LANDSCAPE

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FESTA S ANTONIO - CAPIZZI POEM.

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AT THE VERY LAST LAMP ABOVE CAPIZZI

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At the very last lamp above Capizzi
with a clear starlit sky over head
I slept with a vision
of Cerami bejewelled
in lights at the
foot of my bed.
To the mountainous North
distant lightening struck
highlighting great forests
against the night sky
Capizzi lay silent
perfectly peaceful, fairytale serene
“So pleased to be back again”
mused I.

CAPIZZI. Festa S Antonio. (Sept. 2007).
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Top photo - Capizzi’s last lamp - with Etna in the far distance.
Other photo’s – Capizzi - Festa S Antonio (Sept. 2008).
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More on Capizzi in due course.
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