24 Sept 2022

So many people we’re gridlocked among sausage and cannoli and accordion music, real or imagined. Half of the city could be here, vying for patio seats or lemonade, a cool night, heat only coming from the grill, from the crowd, seen through late summer haze.

A red, white, and green arch in the pattern of an Italian flag rises diagonally through the frame, in front of a brick building in Little Italy, Manhattan, ending in the upper right corner.

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