Reality is what you can
manipulate,
green space, stick figures
something
of time and space
that puts you
in your own movie.
This scene,
Napoleon's Tomb among gardens of
tobacco plants with whores' purses,
stands alone.
Hundreds of people come and go in the Rotunda, speaking Universal Nonsense
crunching gravel to and fro.
This ordinary grit
their only presence
on today's
marbled floors.
Powerfully beautiful writing, Rosaria.
ReplyDeleteWonderful poems, you may have uploaded a thumbnail of the photo you were intending, however.
ReplyDeleteYes, I uploaded a thumbnail picture. Anything clearer might not have done the job.
ReplyDelete"Reality is what you can manipulate." So many people believe that. I like the "ordinary grit."
ReplyDeleteWell done, rosaria!
I like "speaking Universal Nonsense." Where they talking about politics? :-)
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