L'aura del Campo

#10 ktanka tataki sashimi [208-211]

tataki = haikuish with place
sashimi = haikuish but not a definite place
ktanka = like a tanka
*FF = foto / photo

356 208a So old / did this city die / before Rome?
357 208aa No life but / pigeons — this city died / so long ago
358 208b Sun burns ochre / stains on stone — fountains / restore life
359 208c Utter silence — / angels intone cold notes / of stone [S Filipi Torino]
360 208d Under a sparkling / chandelier — a taste / of focaccia
361 208e Chandeliers / light up — two pigeons / pecking crumbs
362 208f Contradiction / in Italian: speaking / softly
363 208g Raindrops clean the city and the false city the same [Bruges? Or ...]

208ab 8/6
208c 8/8
208def 8/9
208g 8/10

364 210a
365 210b
366 210c Old brick walls — / lamp-lights glisten lanes / of cobblestone
367 210d I walk away — A song of Africa fading behind me
368 210e Old folks / under the dome — chants / of the rosary
369 210ee Our prayers, / outside the sanctuary, reach / the same place
370 210f
371 210g As columns soar / over wooden pews — one notices / the emptiness

210abcd 8/11
210e 8/12
210fg Geneve

372 211a Coffin inside / coffin — a list of goods / for this journey
Lay with me on my right side. / I want to make love before I die KTANKA
373 211b Walking a new / city — plucking rosemary / for memories
374 211c Long green bench. / When a chestnut leaves / it's Spring.
375 211d The poor seated on / stone benches — a sparrow / circling for morsels

211a 8/10
211b 8/14
211c 8/15
211d

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