Rio: A Journal of the Arts

 

Tony D'Arpino

 

Garibaldi on Caprera

 

a rock some goats a name
half hidden by trees
stone house with hands
familiar with each stone

red shirts of the grandchildren
drying in the south wind
safe from the sea
grandpa dreaming

to each age the file cards
the culture code of memory
the swamps of Italy as bad
as the pampas of Argentina

the Parma of the butchers
rococco mixed with revolution
but now a drowsy rainstorm
and a boy running up the rocky hill