Assisi

• the ruined temple outside
• the dwarf with his hands on backwards
• slumped like a half filled sack
• the three-tiers of churches built in honour of st francis
• on tiny twisted legs from which sawdust might run
• with whom he has the advantage of not being dead yet
• clucking contentedly fluttered after him as he scattered the grain of the word
• voice as sweet as a child when she speaks to her mother
• whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head