Sometimes I Dream In Italian Postcards From Rome

Bernini's Triton Fountain
Piazza Barberini
Rome

"The muscular figure,

squatting so comfortably
on his shell,

could blow
through his conch

a jet only two inches high,
the pressure was so feeble,

and water fell back over his head,
down his stone locks
and along the grove of his powerful spine,
leaving a glistening dark green stain."

"... he was beautiful in morning sunlight,
and so were the four dolphins
that supported the wavy-edged shell
on which he sat."

Quoted from
Ian McEwan's novel
"Atonement"

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Images photographed
in September 2009
© by Merisi