And on the seventh day, we found HER temple, feasted
on HER sight. Enthroned. Flanked by mammoths on both
sides. There, there! Berry-ringed fingers on berry-strung
vines: vision clipped with paralysed sparrow...
Darius Parvizi-Wayne spent three weeks in lockdown at the end of his five month stay in Italy. Here he recalls the empty streets with a mixture of verse and visuals.