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borgheses | Poem

 
 
BORGHESES GARDENS

   A stray cat 
   In the Borghese gardens 
   Taught me 
   With her skinny, orange body 
   More about art 
   Than the museum 
   With its naked Pauline Borghese 
   Gripping a marble apple. 

- Duane Locke

to Duane    to Moongate