From Romania with love ...

The Polite Mechanicals played their haunting klezmer music -

A wind from the steppes blew through the walls of the Square Tower - 

I could smell wood smoke from the chimneys of nameless towns - young men flew sighing over roof tops - 

The girl playing a tender violin invited us to dance - 

I sat with Anne, waiting for Elena - 

The poets had given her their words - 

Now the words were returned, each word a gift, beautiful and strange -

20.30

Sunday 23 November 2015

The Square Tower

Old Portsmouth