Bridge of Sighs

the story goes that convicted criminals crossing from court to prison to be executed or locked away in dank windowless cells received one last look at the world-- from the bridge's portals facing the sea where against Agian skies sails slipped silently past San Giorgio's doms and its tall tower a million breaths wisped away on the wind fluttered softly to the water-- such a beautiful place again to never see forever more to leave not one sigh stifled-- now, I upon that bridge drink all that I can see for whatever I've left twenty--thirty before eternity I sigh every day every picture every poem