ohhh. this reads like a romantic dream vacation. this tugs at my... well, dreamy romantic side :)

you paint Tuscany, in particular Firenze just as I remember it, visiting there so many years go. Lorenzo the Magnificent would delight in your words.

oh gods, this is gorgeous... once upon a dream... blessings...

jadi, I've never been to Italy, except through the eyes of others in poems like this and movies. Your poem makes me want to go to Italy all the more - to Tuscany and to Modena (to see Maria).
~Chelle~

in and out of step i dance on the Chianti wind - fragrant the aroma of cappuccino the taste of lips cinnamon kissed under Tuscan skies - where the poet comes to gift me the music of places that are a breath a way from me - yet i find here in the master piece of a poet who transcends distance - strokes images that are never still and perade me with the energy that flows me with the want to run dance barefoot splash wade in the fountain … i become-am the laughter the dance the music the blades of sunlight the smile the naked dream in spaces where i am home within home under skies that are the ultimate “Affresco” …un splendido sogno *m.a

Amazing! We two alighted here on the same day, and no conspiracy... I hope to fly amidst these hills myself someday! Our wings all flutter together...and now my comment... The "in and out of step" that begins and ends this piece emphasizes, and draws us into *a dance* where nothing can go wrong, with this charming poet, through the "sun drenched hills" of this Italian airy dream. There is so much detail in place-- names and description that the reader is swept up into a musical tete a tete, as if looking into his eyes over a cappuccino and "splashing "in the fountain" with a carefree abandon an outdoor swirl of pleasure. The Villas (from Pliny's first at Laurentine were airy and opened to flora and fauna to blur indoors and out. We finish the dance and peek at ourselves through the seductive "shuttered windows" and at our feathery dress (so suitible for this exotic fancy flight) (and appropriate for dancers). I love that the steps are "in" and "out" and yet the heart does not miss a beat, and the "chasing" is such a pleasure!