In Rome the Ancient Meets the Modern

Fuel efficient schools of fish
Flash in the sun as they turn together.
Tour buses, mammoth and marauding give chase
Around 2000 year old coral the class escapes.
The whales’ bellies empty
Where now only an impressive nautilus remains.

Benign monsters exist here frozen,
stripped to their weathered stone skeletons;
a city straddling the trench of history.
Atlantis was never lost, just built upon
where myths walked with feet dry of time
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