Tuscan Irrelevancies I: roadside encounter


A close-up, low-angle photograph of a small snail with a distinctively striped shell, moving slowly across a gravel road in Tuscany. The image, with its shallow depth of field, draws attention to the subtle beauty of the snail, contrasting with the poem's theme of a trip to iconic Italian landmarks.

It’s a trip marked fully by the fully marked
Portents abounding from Rome to Florence to Cortona
Every step to the Brunelleschi cupola worn by forebears
Every snap in the Ufizi stale before the iPhone is aimed

Sunday afternoon taking out the trash to eco appropriate bins
(Even this task not mundane but meaningfully marked
so glass does not mingle irrelevantly irreverently with gross)
one finally has a roadside encounter shared only with the divine

your thoughts?