Cupped by dirt then buried      learning in earth blindness to feel history passing

the chimera reads the tracery of the city      erupting overhead as Arezzo inhales,

sighs
Hands reach into trenches      dug to lay the city’s new walls      and grapple a

monster’s body of bronze into air, his      three treacherous faces alert
The fortress looms, and the piazza      thick with human fears      Chimera watches

as stones are laid       into new streets
Awakening to brilliance      and overwhelmed with light      he witnesses some

new faith arising      on the floodplain
Claws splay      at the boundlessness of air