Fontegaia ripples along...

22

 
Another year leans down toward autumn.
Steadfast whine of Palio gone quiet now.
Stubborn yarn of hilltop-town (plow
upending vineyard-wake) only the hum

 
of absent hornets over a fallow stream.
Race of a twining J, milled (purling,
providential) through my veins.  Preening
yearlings, tender feet in a mural scheme -

 
young scouts in alder labyrinth -
gnarled sign of constancy in suffering
(St. Kate, cartwheeling). 
Siena gathers toward a last July.  Absinthe

 
wormwood, rain; pale horses
neighing nigh, near splintered
almond tree (blooming anachronism).
My muttering (tracing their courses).