I have also been in Ravenna
Richard Maux
I have also been in Ravenna;
it is a small, dead town,
and has churches and many ruins
that one can read about in books.
You walk about and gaze around:
the streets are so gloomy and wet,
and so mute with the weight of a thousand years,
and everywhere grows moss and grass!
It is as old songs are:
people hear them but no one laughs,
and each listens and each reflects
upon them until deep in the night.