This Gate to Italy and Rome
leads you inland from the sea
through Circe’s magic cave,
bosom & immortal mind,
all there, though concealed
in the sudden, rising hill
foamed and salted
by the lapping tide.
There’s the hill that guards
a yearning bay
with her divine mask
directed skyward
and forever thus beheld
in a love’s ultimate act
that left her in silence
in the acme of a night.
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