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"THE VISION OF SAINT AUGUSTINE".(Poem)

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From: Poetry
Date: 20011001
Author:BIE, BEVERLEY

Carpaccio, San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice

 
   You are amazed to find trees in Venice-- 
   To turn a corner into a campo 
   Where two or three rustling acacias 
   Spread their halo of leaves 
   Over two or three red-slatted benches. 
   It's as if you had slipped through a curtained doorway 
   Into a hall full of dull gold scenes 
   By Carpaccio--a miraculous light-- 
   Though the rio's still shrouded in a mist 
   Compounded of water vapour and smog 
   So it's not that the sun has come out, it's 
   Something to do with the leaves and painting 
 
   In the realm of echoes ...

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