The lime, electric green of the April sea
off Ischia
Is just a thumb-rub on the window glass between here and there:
And the cloud cap above the volcano
That didn't move when the sea wind moved;
And the morning the doves came, low from the mountain's shadow,
under the sunlight,
Over the damp tops of the vine rows,
Eye-high in a scythe slip that dipped and rose and cut down toward the
sea;
And the houses like candy wrappers blown up against the hillside
Above Sant'angelo,
fuchsia and mauve and cyclamen;
And the story Nicola told,
How the turtle doves come up from Afric
On the desert winds,
how the hunters take the fresh seeds
From thheir crops and plant them,
The town windows all summer streaked with nameless blooms.

The landscape was always the best part.

~Charles Wright, The Southern Cross