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A door marker of a man's head ensconced in fruit in Parma, Italy.

It keeps returning,
the history we make,
the lives we forget.

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La Scapigliata (The Lady with Dishevelled Hair) painrting by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Gallery in Parma, Italy.

The light comes and goes
all day on her face, the hair
Leonardo drew.

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A swirling group of swallows high above an old apartment building in Parma, Italy.

The sound their swirl makes —
the black swallows in Parma,
like a plea — or pleas.

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Two stray cats in a park in Parma, Italy, one sunbathing, one walking with tail up.

First, one sunbathing —
then another comes, tail up,
suddenly there’s six.

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St. John's monastery in Parma, Italy.

The historian —
under cloistered squares of sun,
tries to tell it all.

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A barn swallow perched in Parma, Italy.

Swallows diving in,
taking wide ancient circles
in cathedral air.

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A narrow sunny street with a bird above with wings spread in Parma, Italy.

Through the city streets,
long passageways, wingbeats thump —
we follow the light.

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The interior of the main cathedral in Parma, Italy.

Correggio walks
from dome to dome to dome to
draw out what’s holy.

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The pink-marbled babtistry in Parma, Italy.

Long arms at its sides,
the pink baptistry holds firm
at city center.

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