Venetian Backwaters. - a photo on Flickriver

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Venetian Backwaters
Only a decaying Disneyland,
cosmopolitan colours of cobbled walls
mingle into milky mint of silk ripples;
a cracked painting
filled with optimistic carnations.

No hooked romance slices through these waters;
tarnished motorboats scrape along synthetic canyons,
harnessed to cruel portcullises.
Expectant quiet laps at broken bricks and rust,
lisping whispers hissed at the dormant air.
Distant weathervanes flaunt their flashes of sunlight,
drowning out a howl gagged by cheap lace.

Now left with only her naivety,
she wades through the murky labyrinth,
dragged from the art gallery perfection
that tempted her into those cutthroat corridors.
Squatting in a scabbing iron doorway,
her fatigued eyes stutter closed
as she droops to muddy rest.

Cold Venus swallows her prey.

Taken in: Italia / Veneto / Venezia / San Marco (show map)

Taken on: October 9, 2015

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