Altamura

           A Spanish lament
         blooms in high halls;               ... in incarcerated windows
      unflowering on the marble                 almost touching the vines
      then pouring and straining               in their stony spouse's eyes
   through jigsawed cobbled streets.             a length of breath away.

... and intermittently pulsing strings           The sadness of the World
    spray the orange from the lamps         sprouts in between the crevasses
          painting the cries                    ripe and full of taste -
       and mellowing the sorrow.                   a feast for crows          
                                                  and only one plate.