Castillo de los carpatos
Hernando Rico Sanchez
Thomas White
All sorrows can be borne
if we put them into a story.
– Isak Dinesen
My guide book tells me
that terrible plagues once
visited this medieval city.
Yet today it still seems
diseased, the old stained
walls gone leprous with
smeared circus posters
streaming rains have
melted into red and
orange running blisters,
a perfect exile for a
modern Job seeking
to camouflage his
own sores with words.