Looking Back
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), View of Toledo, ca. 1610.
Before
Bones become brine
Looking back becomes a crime
Mercy meets Leviathan’s maw
Before
Reckoning rears recklessly
Driving denizens indoors
Avaunt or Drown! becomes law
Chance
An Iota of light
the way, looms