A five/four time at three a.m.
and Old Hermann sleeps
the sleep of man . . .
Little Mountain on the Golden Hill
where cypresses play the blues of trees
and Cupid strolls through Via Nassa . . .
Meanwhile, in Piazza Riforma
Miss Love drinks
beer and waits and thinks:
Jazz unties the mooring ropes
and sails lake Lugano
with drums, bass and piano.
(Léon Bertoletti, 5/4 and Other Things)
