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Poems

Ghost Hands

2 April 2015

2:00 PM

2 April 2015

2:00 PM

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Sant’Apollinaire Nuovo, Ravenna


Your hands brush marble, feel impelled
  To touch where crisp cold tesserae
   Compose a fine array

Of arches that once held
  A gallery of courtiers with gifts they gave
A throne in mosaic palace down a long cool nave.

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