Michelangelo

Michelangelo's Tomb, Chiesa di Santa Croce, Florence

Michelangelo
could make paint sing
and marble dance
and heaven linger
in a mystical dome
of brick and mortar and wood
but it took him a thousand years
of darkness and preparation and toil
and I don't think we have
that kind of time, do we?

Unpublished, 2010

Gio reads "Michelangelo" on YouTube