Painting and Poem/K.C. Bacon

GOODBYE "UNA FURTIVA LAGRIMA"

Italy

In browns and velvet,

Deep green;

I saw this soul

Once nearby

Crooning

Into a barrel of flames —

A woman

Like him, singing

To the same heaven

Where God

With man

Is right

And hot with life

Yet —

Of course I applauded —

Of course I did

And then of course

I died.

Goodbye, "Una Furtiva Lagrima."

K.C. Bacon's first RBP novella, Moon Over New Rotterdam, will appear later this month.

TS