Rupert M. Loydell
Assissi
We drove over to see the angel. Made our pilgrimage
across the plain, leaving the flat dual carriageway intent
on going somewhere else for the Roman road which heads
directly to the hill town.
From a distance the monastery monumental at the
village’s end; the fortress at the top of another hill; the
cathedral dwarfing its surround.
At the back of the museum, a small annunciation (artist
unknown) and a wooden madonna & child, weathered
into semi-abstraction since the l2th century.
Why are these things hidden away, waiting to be seen?
We were the only visitors to the museum that afternoon.
Ice cream in the square. One afternoon the temperature
41°C outside the car. The air-conditioning struggling,
our child slept fitfully.
We put you on the train to go home; later, we will drive
ourselves to the airport. There is a small wasps’ nest in a
clumsy stone sculpture at the end of the track near where
we stayed.
We are hoping to take the room on tour, might one day
learn to swim in the presence of the Other.
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