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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SITE MAP - NEBRODI REGION BLOGSPOT LOCATIONS.

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SITE MAP - MADONIE REGION BLOGSPOT LOCATIONS.

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"YOU CAN'T DO MUCH BIZ' WITH THE LIZ"

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YOU CAN’T DO MUCH BIZ'
WITH THE LIZ'
'COS THE LIZ' TAKES ONE
LOOK AT YOUR FIZ'
“JESUS CHRIST!” CRIES THE LIZ'
“I’M NOT UP FOR THIZ”
‘N’ HE’S UP
'N' HE’S OFF
IN A TIZ.

-Notes:
“TIZ” – Oxford Dictionary of 21st Century English (Pub'd Palermo. June 2003).

---“Tis – a poetic word used to denote Lizard disappearing up its own rectum at very high speed”.

Sicilian translation as yet unavailable - offers welcome!! Don't be shy!!!

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Tomorrow - Parco delle Madonie Region "Blogspot" locations.

SURROUNDED

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In 2003 I holidayed in a Sicily for 2 months from the end of May. I used up about 5 small Notebooks with scribbles in the usual way. At the end of Notebook One on Tuesday 17 June I noted

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“had decided to walk from Geraci Siculo to Gangi at a little after 3pm and plotted an itiniery for next week – it was a really really lovely sunny afternoon – with breezes following or either to my left side. Portella dei Bifolchi as ever lovely to take a drink at, and then the lovely lovely grasses and wayside plants from there down to Bivio Geraci – really lovely - as ever. Then the walk from there to Gangi was lovely too – found many items of wayside ephemera I’ll try to utilise for Cards – including my 2nd “Route 66” packet. Time for a Notebook No. 2. What a lovely lovely walk in the sun and not the first one”.

I’d woken up on that Tuesday morning having slept on the old abandoned pizzeria patio below Geraci Siculo’s Castello, had made the above walk to Gangi and slept beyond the town’s eastern side (but well before Bivio Comunello) next to a big haystack in a field – very comfortable. I’d already slept at this spot for 3 nights between the 5th and 7th June. On the first night of this 3 day period, very nearby in the hedgerow of that haystack field a Nightingale sang and sang for hours and hours – it was incredible, the first Nightingale I had ever heard. Fantastic – hence the reference to a Gangi Nightingale in my 7th June 2003 poem “SO NICE TO BE BACK IN SICILY” (>see). -

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In that June I also made and posted several ephemeral home made "on the road" postcards to London friends. They’d included “SURROUNDED” and "ROUTE 66". For a fuller appreciation of the inspiration that helped to create this item of ON THE ROAD ephemera click on the following ROLLING STONES link >> “ROUTE 66”.
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Tomorrow - “YOU CANT DO MUCH BIZ WITH THE LIZ”.

GOBSMACKED! ANGLO-SICILIAN REFRESHERS.

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Just before noon on Sunday 23 June 1997 I arrived at BIVIO COMUNELLO (>see<) after the 3 mile walk from GANGI and after having amusingly photographed 2 contrasting road signs just yards apart – one warned against fires the other about “snowy road conditions”.. At Comunello I rested up for 4 hours. I ate 3 chicken pieces and a ham sandwich and also noted

“there was some breeze, tho’ the sun is very warm – also a few spots of rain! The water is running … my ankle is a bit sore – it’s a nuisance. Bag not too heavy but heavy all the same. Nice in the grasses under these small trees opposite the water point…that lovely goat was with the sheep and nearby, and a shepherd (a nice man). The sheep all ran off in a great pack along the Nicosia road – the shepherd had to run to keep up – they were all over the road. The goat was extraordinary – he’d
previously jumped down off the roof to land right beside me! He did it again a little later”.

I still remember him right by my side, he stood for a second or two kind of shook himself down then toodled off.

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I set off along the ST MAURO road to a small bivio intersection then forked right in the MISTRETTA direction and after about 3 miles rested up at GIOVANNI NAPOLI’s small wood where I slept the night. Next morning I went on at 8am towards MISTRETTA and a little before noon arrived at an intersection (ST LUCIA/ MISTRETTA) and rested up. Here I ate one or two thirst quenching REFRESHERs and for amusement wrote “ANGLO-SICILIAN REFRESHERS”.

I’d also bought REFRESHERS with me in July 1995. Walking north of ST MAURO towards POLLINA and the blue sea I popped a REFRESHER into my mouth and in that very same split second instant totally out of the blue a butterfly flew straight into my mouth along with the REFRESHER. I reacted absolutely immediately, spat out both, tasting a powdery residue on my lips which I took to have been deposited by the unfortunate butterfly. It had had pale blue wings. An enormously surprising event. GOBSMACKED indeed! GOBSMACKED by the BUTTERFLY and GOATSMACKED by you can easily guess who.

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Tomorrow - SURROUNDED!