Thursday, August 26, 2010

Rome - life, art, stones - Travel Series



















Today in Rome, heading down
Michelangelo’s Spanish Steps,
under an unchanging moon,
I held on to the balustrade,
grateful for his giving me a hand.
All for love, I stumbled over the past
as if it were my own feet. Here, in my twenties,
I was lost in love and poetry. Along the Tiber,
I made up Cubist Shakespearean games.
I played with an ignorant mirror for an audience:
myself, embroiled with personage
from Antony and Cleopatra. Delusions of grandeur!
They were for a time my foul-weather friends—
as once I played with soldiers
on the mountainous countryside of a purple blanket.

Stanley Moss, “Return to Rome” from A History of Color: New and Collected Poems. 
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sighisoara Citadel - Travel Romania














"The town of Sighisoara is the most enchanting of all the Transylvanian towns.
Its medieval buildings, gilded roofs and towers have been unspoiled by war or modern industry.
The Citadel, built by the Saxons in the 12th Cent., rises above the town and is preserved as a museum."

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