The Last Pieta, in Florence

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The whole city  
Is stone, even  
Where stone  
Doesn't belong.  
What is that old  
Man's public face  
Doing sorrowing,  
Secretly a little,  
A little above and  
A little back from  
What is that stone  
Doing sorrowing
Where stone
Doesn't belong?

© James Wright