The Serchio River Valley is the wall-less central corridor
of a giant roofless ruin
The mountain spurs are the perpendicular walls.
Vigilant, the village outposts perch on the edges of the rubble.
The valleys are the rooms
Cantilevered on the mountainsides
there is a labyrinth of gently winding roads
From which I watch spring climbing very slowly to the top.
First, the cherries blaze, clusters
of bright white lights scattered
on dark grey hillsides
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