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Strindberg in Paris

Frank De Canio

He saunters in his black-hooded cloak,
scanning the distant blue line
of the harbor, which he can see
across dust-covered walls of
a lunatic asylum. He boards in a nearby hotel.
Later, he’s forced to duck behind the hedges,
having injected morphine into the twig of a leaf
to test the drug’s effect on plant life.
He’s chased back to his hotel, chastened.
Chapped hands caked in sulphuric dust,
he tries to transform base matter into gold.
As his love grows cold by the blue flame
of the crucible, he dons his penitent’s cloak.

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