Olivia Hodgson
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‘Santa Maria del Popolo’ – a poem by Olivia Hodgson
Santa Maria del Popolo They are listening underfoot here, filigree-tongued and built with bones crowding from centuries of faltering tombs. Childhood compels me to lift the Latin hiding in marble-dry corners of the mouth. I drop a reluctant euro to hear the filament click, releasing a private light. Saint Peter, all…