Saturday, 31 October 2020

Friday, 9 October 2020

La Fornarina - a poem by Chris Zachariou

la Fornarina by Raphael mirroring themes of desire, decay, and spiritual desolation, from the collection Melancholy Poems.
la Fornarina - Painting by Raphael

I.

In the silence of a nearly finished day,
Margherita straddles all her years
of barbed wire fences and takes the painter
   to her bed.
At night she lies with Raffaello
—such beautiful things they do together—
it’s impossible to resist these pleasures.