All Inclusive Vacation:
Spring, Winter, Summer,
Medieval Ages, and the
Renaissance, Magnolia virginiana:
Everything as One
A northern Italy the color of
Depression drenched in rain instructs the square
Which holds a summer tree as if in love.
Its blossoms come in summer to ensnare
Us with white fragrance, but its leaves are green
The year around. That day in early spring
Was more like winter. The medieval scene
Of cloistered pillars holds within this wing
The echoing of Giotto just beyond
It. On the plane to Venice right across
The aisle were two young lovers, one quite fond
To have his man whose hair was soft as moss
Asleep against his neck. Another man
Hugged female beauty in his bent arm’s span.