Red Cone- day 6- Venetian pigments

Venetian pigments

Each time I am in Venice
I return to this place
And stare at the pigments
Imagine
Using all the colours here

Each time I am in Venice
I return to Dal Mas
And dream of life as an artist
While drinking the best coffee
Or in the evening
A spritz or maybe two at Dal Mas

More recently Catherine offers
Spritz at her restaurant on Lido near the vaporetto stop
with Sarah and Francesco
I almost always stay with Sarah and Francesco
on Lido

Francesco rows across the lagoon most days to work
I am lucky enough to be a passenger
down the Grand Canal we go and always
I wonder how life could be better

The first time I stayed with
Sarah and Francesco
I rode down the Grand Canal
on his barge carrying flowers
To the market
Sometimes I stay at the hotel
Dalla Mora
Francesco's hotel
If I want to get the first train out for a day trip to Firenze
San Giminiagno or even Roma
And catch the last train back

Some say Venice
Is like an adult Disneyland
I don't like Disney
And wonder how the
Culture the history the art
The beauty are not seen
Let alone admired

At least twenty years
Have passed
Each time I return to the shop
with the pigments
Each time I visit Dal Mas
And each time I drink spritz
And sometimes after a day
at the Biennale or an exhibition
I visit the bar at the back of the
Florian and drink fresh peach Bellini
made by Maurizio