surrounded by old wood houses with decrepit facades
examining the weary detritus of accumulated Gods
Asia & Europe both spitting distance away
Freight ships & lush yachts passing through high traffic bays
Byzantium ghosts
High castle walls on both coasts
A boundless array of millennia-old stones
Exquisite tile work coloring shapely domes…
This sea…surrounded on all sides…
By blue eyed Muslims interspersed between worlds
Sunkissed madonnas rocking Desdemona curls
Swarthy smooth sweet talkers
Hoary old Romani skinwalkers
crusty oud players canvassing scales on every street
lingering clouds of kebab smoke coloring the heat
almond traces & judas trees
headscarf faces & cypress leaves
a city knee deep in travelers and thieves
ambivalent about what it ought to believe…
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