Poem to read while standing in a queue for coffee: Campo dei Fiori by Czeslaw Milosz

Giordano Bruno’s statue in Rome’s Campo dei Fiori Campo dei Fiori Czeslaw Milosz, 1943 In Rome, on Campo dei Fiori, baskets of olives and lemons cobbles spattered with wine and the wreckage of flowers. Vendors cover the trestles with rose-pink fish; armfuls of dark grapes heaped on peach-down. On this same square they burned Giordano […]