may you drive the road
from Firenze to Ravenna
that Giotto goat-path
twisting through just-green
valleys and hillsides
still shepherds still vineyards
and ask what it reminds
you of sliding back in time
from Dante’s eyes to the 5th
century baptistery where Jesus
waist-deep in the Jordan
naked against a golden sky
receives his enlightenment
while a river god hands him
a
green mantle to wear
and we
step back to gasp
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