IMPROVISATION#411
GIOVANNI MARTINELLI
(1885-1969)

We listened vicariously
to you,Martinelli
on Saturdays on the radio
when I lived as a boy
in the summers at Revere
with a family
of sixteen sisters
you sing to us as Pagliacchi
Othello and in Puchini's
Turandot
as I played the piano notes
of all your arias
before swimming.