Rome
and yet
we have all done it: lived
too much inside
this arena of lions and armor and bright sun.
I only wanted to touch you the way the pen touches on the imagination
and then pulls back from the heat.
I wonder how sunburned the baby will get seated
in the audience.
Maybe the parents are too busy cheering the gladiator on or
maybe they just don't
give a damn.
—Sandra Simonds