Posts Tagged roma
BOLOGNA LA GRASSA
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on July 22nd, 2011
A roma woman, cradling a child, sits
cross-legged in a tie-and-dye dress and begs
from fur-coated women strolling beneath
the portico of the Pavaglione.
Enamelled photos of resistance fighters
are displayed on the side of the Town Hall.
Where the bomb blasted the station wall,
the crack has been crystallised in plate glass.
Nicolò Dell’Arca’s terracotta
pietĂ , its smug patron as Joseph
of Aramathea, with a concerned
angel as onlooker, portrays four women,
mothers petrified in distress, in despair,
in that grief which threatens breath and heartbeat.
PREPOSITIONS
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on January 31st, 2010
ON THE PONTE SAN ANGELO
Three roma children
on New Year’s Day kindle a
fire from last year’s leaves.
IN SEVILLE
After rain, a girl
struts her stuff flamenco style:
no one notices.
BY THE A3
Four chestnut horses
flick their tails in the shade of
a horse chestnut tree.
AT KOM OMBO
Crocodiles, Pharaohs,
Romans, French, Turks, British gone:
only tourists, sand.
ON THE SHORTEST DAY
There is only one
theme: in death’s contemplation,
life’s celebration.
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