PETRACH'S DAY DREAM
July 20 1304-July 19 1374

I'ts dark in a San Francisco bakery
and Italian words of Petrach
in his sonnet welcomes me
to this city in July
on a day you are born and die
that miracle spark in Arezzo
in the birth from your betters
you would rediscover
Cicero's letters
and change poetry
for a universal Renaissance
in a valiant verse and history.