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The View from Parco Grifeo - by Scott Harney

from " The Blood of San Gennaro" - 2020 https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/scott... "The View from Parco Grifeo" by Scott Harney Paola serves me breakfast in her Chinese silk pajamas, coffee with steamed milk, the juice of blood oranges erupted whole from sweet volcanic soil, and toast from a ribbed grill that tastes of the same sweet ash. Sweeping on her terrace high on the Vomero hill, she looks out at the sea, and tells me whether I should sail. She says “Non oggi”, pointing down to a broad harbor that looks to me like merely rippled slate, not rough water. But Paola knows the sea, or perhaps she only knows Fabrizio, her husband, took a rough ride out today to play his drums in a Capri club. What she doesn’t know is soon she and I will have the same disease. Once carpeted with broccoli, this hill is named for ploughshares or vomeri, implements that cut the crust of sloping fields until American and German bombs left the land good for nothing but the towers of apartments built by sudden money. Still, the view remains from ground or balcony: ferries and their feathered wakes, trees that cling to cliffs out by Posillipo, islands ringed in mist. And still each day the sun keeps potted cactuses alive on terraces of Vomero, and still each night Tunisian music throbs against the shore, or maybe that’s Fabrizio, drumming in the wind.