The town takes on its antique darkness
and in the streets, stumbling over the uneven cobbles
one sees the rooms lit with another light,
a light nearer the ground, more personal.
And the candle, the single candle gives a new meaning to the rooms inside the bead curtains
an ancient, unremembered focus.
Faces: hands: and a vast penumbra
in the living shadow hang shining pans – irrelevant
In the shade, more shadows on the shadows, moving
But above all, faces – the expressions clear-cut, intensified:
And the moving hands.