Breath of the Onion by Franco Pagnucci

Author:Franco Pagnucci
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.
Published: 2015-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

I followed you in the downpour and the exhaust fumes that now hung over the street like a heavy lid on a pot, and I wondered how the Florentine air was in Dante’s day.

“Too bad beauty is only beauty from above,” I said, thinking of the light and us standing in the rooms looking and standing at the windows looking down. But this, this was the world, and following all the rushing passers, we, too, rushed to the canopied goldsmiths’ shops, lining both sides of the covered bridge, where the lights in the display windows full of gold made the air under the canopies and all the stopped-lookers golden.

“Do you want some of this?” I said, pointing to a necklace and earring loops. “How about—this? . . . This?” I pointed into windows as we walked in the glowing, golden heat.

“I only wanted to look,” my wife said, pulling me away by the hand.

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