Poem: ‘Medusa in Venice’
Rebecca Tamás, 19 December 2019
Starlings collect and expand in small breaths,it is still early, and thick spring light is filtering in overthe stucco roofs, the wide squares, the tracks of water,the armless broken statues.
She is not dead, but here –long patterned skirt, hair coiled in green vibrating braids,slightly peeling skin, freckles, deep tan,violet silk slippers with a curt block heel.
Breakfast is hard cheese,...