Dali in Sorrento

One of the Angels

An old, bent over woman with long white hair

and black clothes just walked

into the restaurant in which

we sit

asking the waiter if a woman

came in with children in tow.

The waiter replied, “No–

I haven’t seen anyone…”

And in that very instant,

we thought she was a fantastic ghost!

A shimmering illusion

A nightmarish fantasy

A morbid and slightly provocative secret–

Whoosh!

She vanished

as quickly as she came in

A relic of a century passed

the visage of a phantom neighborhood

to be relished only

by the book readers

and

silent–

(albeit arbitrary)

truth

seekers.