walking in Rome
male
cicadas foretell the sun
the
distance of rain as we walk
through
Rome on the 25th of July:
the
history of Empire
i touch
the breath of fireinside
my mouth
birds peck at
dormant
words under my steps
roads
lead into alibis for an idea of time
when tutte strada vanno a Roma
lady
Cicadas, on the other hand, treasure
silence around
the marbled stories
of Villa
Burghese
Sophie
walks beside me painting
the air longing dreams
the
world conforms a canvasher
voice
a ripe fruit
that floats
on the
Roman landscape
from the
hills of Villa Medici the city
spreads
like the wings of an eagle of light
constantly
diffusing emergingsomehow
the
impending clearance of dependences
melts
with the gradation of memories the precise
clockwork
of stages
with
loss and life to gain
clouds
travel homeless
colosseum
The
Roman Colosseum-
round as
a certainty
or the
eye of a hurricane-
was once
one of the
seventh
wonders
of the
world. But, little
is known
of it compared
to the
years it has outlasted
time and
earth…
