I don’t want to put this poem here; it deals with the death of the poet’s mother, though not in an upsetting way (I think). And yet…
She wanted me to hear the article
that said that Venice would be filled like all
Italy that season and that Venice in particular
was vulnerable and small, weighted with the souls
of travelers, and that in the Grand Canal
rivers of dark waters moved.
velogiraffe said:
This is lovely. Venice is a potent symbol for me, though I’m not sure what I think it symbolizes. “Vulnerable and small” is a good start.
magpieandwhale posted this
The natural magpie impulse is, of course, to grab shiny things and hoard them in one place.
Hi, I'm Esther, and I run Magpie & Whale, currently steampunking Shakespeare and the Roman Empire in the weekly serial Innogen and the Hungry Half!
