Week 3 – Image 4

 

Pictures taken of gelato masterpieces:

Melon, chestnut, pistachio,

White chocolate infused with dark chocolate slivers,

Crowned with cream, thick and rich,

Destined to blow up Facebook.

Umbrian white served with aperitifs:

Plump green olives, chunks of cheese and

Rosemary breadsticks (a euro if ordered separately)

Provides lunch and a view.

Red, gold, black and green whirls

Explode and contract with the Improv theatre

That storms Corso G. Mazzini.

Onlookers move in waves trailing

the troupe as theyWeave in

and out of the sunlit piazza and the

Deep shade of cobbled alleyways.

Propaganda appears on the table

Accompanied by hasty Italian presumably

Announcing show times, locations.

Waffle cone points vanish into grins

As clouds darken, threatening hail

Concealed in the gusts that disperse napkins

And bite through sleeves.