42opus

is an online magazine of the literary arts.

2 April 2007 | Vol. 7, No. 1

Your Laundry on the Line Like a Giant, Breathing Beast

Your laundry on the line like a giant, breathing beast,

like the billowing sheets above the alleys in Trastevere,


where mothers yell after their children Vieni qua! Vieni qua!

while