Amazing Grace
Our Lady of Good Voyage
By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 07, 2018
Amazing Grace
Art in Narrow Streets
Afternoons with Grace
Above Tennis Courts
An empty gallery
End of fading day
Talk of Provincetown
Friends and history
So much to say
Consoli in every sense
Vico worked at Sal’s
Summers pearl diving
What artists do
Just to be by the sea
Life can be a beach
Over the years
Now out of reach
So many visits
Fun and outrageous
Their apartment in Florence
Small and ancient
Near Santa Maria del Carmine
He served bread soup
Stroll that night
Couples therapy
Paparazzi conspiracy
Sights and sounds
Ponte Vecchio
Crossing the Arno
Spring Break with Astrid
Colleagues at NESAD
Teaching art history
That Sunday long ago
Apartment in Jamaica Plain
Gathering of artists
Later our house in Adams
Then new, now gone
Walk to the brook
Fisk Creek
Vico’s inspiration
His typical whimsy
Hook up a generator
Free electricity
Why not he said
Ecco with a shrug
Chin thrust out
Italians speak
With their bodies
Anything is possible
With a little imagination
Like his fanciful flowers
Les Fleurs du mal
That last time in
Provincetown
Three years ago
Like today it was hot
That September
Café for brunch
Jamaican waiters
Rasta summer workers
We marveled at that
I dread you not
Heard the latest news
Horrors of art school
Petty intrigues
So glad to be gone
They struggled on
So full of Grace
Such lust for life
How can it be
Sweet siren’s song
We talked so long
Giotto to Hofmann
Vico told stories
Boccaccio on foccacia
Rich and musical
Etched like scrimshaw
Whalebone carved
Scratchy images
During epic voyage
From which no
Traveler returns
Save me a place
So like Grace
Up and away
In her beautiful balloon
River deep mountain high
We wonder why