1. Today I realized I was hungry for landscape In the old days if you went from one village to another, from Bisaccia to Andretta say, there was empty space between the two. Now the village is empty and the space in the middle has been filled. When I took a different route, this time from Andretta to Calitri, my impression was confirmed. The road is only partially paved and nobody travels there. The landscape looked much better and I devoured it in the sunlight. From every other point of view, that August day in Irpinia was the same winter as always.     2. A friend tells me it’s time to look up and see other places. I don’t obey. I stay here in this place and look down at the ground down and further down.     3. When land was not yet threatened we used to look elsewhere. But now, We must watch it carefully watch it every day. It’s life expectancy looks shorter even than ours.     4. Nobody can stay where they are exile is inevitable from every village every town. Residing here is a form of diplomacy The only possible place to live is inside poetry.