For Jules<\/p>\n
Recent graffiti despoils the faded peach, skin blushed walls
\nof crumbling plaster, baked crisp by fierce summers\u2019 heat.
\nGrand canyons steeply cleaved in two by cool waters
\ntransporting this city\u2019s daily provender and bulky goods,
\nthrown into and out of low boats, creeping, by rhythmic Venetians, bending.
\nSteeped in history\u2019s memories of exotic cultures passing through
\nto places far and foreign \u2013 a mecca of wonders of distant worlds;
\nsoaked and absorbed into the fabric of buildings and washed
\nand sifted; softened; cleansed; transformed by flowing waters
\nebbing and flowing, tidally driven, mystically moved.
\nSee faces made by ancient Banksy\u2019s form like clouds and disappear.
\nSun shifted with shadows cast on the vertical sides of palaces
\nand basilicas; stately temples of music and drama; cultural shrines
\nof beauty and art; of Murano glass and Renaissance tapestries.
\nGhosts of artists\u2019 images cast in transient pictures there.
\nA nose, a chin, a classical sihouette \u2013 can you see it? Im not sure\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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