
Poem by Alexandra Bakonica
SWEET AFTERNOON
The shape of the square
and the houses which delineate it
with lit arcades
open air restaurants
and cafes, here
where the young people
flood the sidewalks
leave no empty table
the futility and sensual life of the city
drowned together, dissolved
into the sweet afternoon
and yet inescapable, here
where beauty thickens,
I entered with awe