Speculum Celestiale
‘Vigna San Martino/Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy
Published on 08/07/11
By Mike Watson
Do you know how many times
the World shouted at me from a distance
and wanted to kill me?
Do you realise how many times
the World shouted at me, close up,
so very close up,
and wanted to love me?
Poetry sustained me.’
