AUTUMN IN OCCITANIA

The beautiful lands

of troubadours and 'heretics',

the great flowing cloth

of blood thrown

over the shimmering hills

and green orchards,

the stones of towns

under northern shadows,

the parchments of inquisition

replacing the songs;

the fires on squares

where flesh fell

from hands grasped in prayer;

the great river flows

past fallen arches

carrying bodies of

the plague years.

14.01.-15.01.2019