Sara Menefee/ Poem
paglia
paglia one of the few words I picked up in Italy
Battipaglia beat-straw a little town we read in in the south
the poor man who plays Christ in Pasolini's film of the passion drops
dead under the brutal sun
having gotten his fill at last of ravioli
that some peasant-heretic once said would someday fall from the sky
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