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A bright star shimmers over once still seas:
                                         my final destination
treks across troubled waves
                                         and over seething  storms
my instinct is heightened and honed
far from suffocating cold 
northern climes
          

On the final ascent, 
over the last bruising steps, 
gasping...grasping for air. 

Now I'm breathing 
with consummate ease. 
Once more I taste the scented air
and sense the cool ocean heaving.

As Trinita Dei Monti marble
                                       beckon,
                         a dark figure in the doorway
                    is veiled steeped in shadows 

lifts a white hand,
                          parts the mask,
shows a pale face
                               aged wrinkled;
as if fated with a tragic task;

but in an instance  
illuminated cold flesh
radiated by golden braided beams;
pale eyes by azure blue brightened
as all darkness dissipates in a flash.

Do I dream? a face
transfigured 
transmigrated. 
remembered with maternal smile.
                unable to speak in this mortal world,
words silently mouthed, not uttered 
like magenta moths caressing air
with fragile wings flinching close

still unsavaged by care
                                       and disease,
                        opening the door
into the church.
its perfumed aroma seems a perfect release.
relinquished 

now a warm hand 
welcomes me 
to this insubstantial tomb.
Is it an illusionary monument?


poetry has written 
my name into a fountain 
of dreams in eternal water
etched ripples that ruffle 
a lake's troubled surface
skimmed by pebbled words

if you too dare to dream,
let these Spanish Steps
be your stairway 
your path 
your pilgrimage

to the high windows:
below, the square;
above, stark bright stars 
vortexing
               shuddering 
                                   shimmering the night

my life mask now a sharp new constellation.
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