Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Category: Italy

  • To Rome By Train

    To Rome By Train

    On the train to Rome – They say I’m traveling Second Class… First Class is offered a drink upon being seated. We roll past little Italian towns on the journey, small hills dotting the horizon – A man and his wife place a cover on his little car and roll it to a protected spot…

  • Venetian Coffee

    Venetian Coffee

    Sipping a cappuccino at a small cafe in Venice. Have to catch a train in about an hour… There is something strange and yet familiar about all of this, like Déjà vu, or something like a dream. I wonder if my ancestors had ever come to Venice, if they’d ever wanted to. When I walk…