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(HE)ART OF SHADOWS
Hello from Tolosa, dear Professor Wade.
Today, on the eve of my return from this small city
in Spain’s Basque Country,
I met an old man from Italy.
Marco owns Teatri Mobili.
Over lunch he said,
in the forests of Viterbo
there is a special fly with red eyes --
if you wait at dawn
to see where it hovers and rests,
that is when the rarest truffles are near.
Earlier this evening in the square
outside Tolosa’s puppet museum,
a small crowd squeezed into a yellow bus. Marco’s sons with chiseled chins,
and their ink-eyed wives
with Argentinian and Euskara tongues performed a wordless show.
I’d like to cancel my ticket home.