Cities and Places Remembered

Venice: Blue and White Spirals … in Poetry and Paint

Shimmer serenely… Then flash and blink Like broken bits of tesserae O NEON LIT TRAVELLER IN TIME: STAND STILL AND WATCH THE MIME. Gondoliers’ oars stir Bulls-eye circles Into green molten glass Whose wavelets lap antiphonally Smooth marble steps. Sapphires and emeralds, Pearls, rubies and gold, Filigreed arches of pale pink stones Enhanced by columns …

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