my italy belongs to the industrious family of paper italies
it has a capital in columbus for veneration a capital for poetry in new york
it has two money capitals palm springs and palm beach

these capitals also shadow other capitals in earth italy
some people call earth italy another paper italy like argentina or constantinople
but paper italy nonetheless includes earth italy

you say earth includes paper and the sources of paper
earth includes ideas and the fields where we form ideas and us that form them
paper italy meets and touches earth italy the same way we form earth into paper

paper italy's passion for recovered time can find satisfaction in earth italy
some people say you cannot recover time but you can
large stone abutments of time pierce the mouth of earth italy

tourists come home to paper italy leading time on strong ropes like elephants
it fills up with recovered time so in places you can't tell it from earth italy

  * from "ELLIS ISLAND"