Siena 1978 ‘the red-haired girl from Palaeography’ The photograph was taken when the sun broke throughAnd shone on the copper red of her hairAs we sat in the Piazza del CampoAfter seven days of unrelieved rainfall.We’d come out from seeing the LorenzettiFrescos: Good and Bad Government,And the attendant golden-haired angelsSurrounding the Virgin and her child.…

        Meccano Magazine   Bridge May Riordan ordered it for me From London. Being educational, It was exempt from the 2d Purchase Tax, Which was ironic because, in the reading Of instructions, I was ineducable. The sons of the Creamery Manager, Who also had Set 5, completed models So they always came out…