Author Archive | Kendall Upton

Dedicated to and with help from the writers studying abroad in Rome, Autumn 2018 A bird flies onto the ledge of the church’s window. The sunlight the window casts over a painting on the inside is superimposed with the bird’s shadow. Inhale the wood of the pews wetted from damp autumn thighs and dried again, […]

Dedicated to and with help from the writers studying abroad in Rome, Autumn 2018 From the relinquished pavilions & moth-eaten stone To the cigarette cemeteries Between the street cobbles Rome knows how to make us remember Our own mortality With its museum rooms of epigraphy And rows of sarcophagi That are decorated With their own […]