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traffic in Italy
An original poem by MaryJane Nordgren in Italy
in Venice, long, slender, black gondolas
each with distinctive hood ornament
pole-oared on one side only
with such skill the length turned corners
with bare inch and a half to spare
and slipped beside one another and other water traffic as jaw-droppingly as
street traffic and pedestrians in Rome
mjNordgren 12/21/2022 Splendid Venice Hotel