Trieste II
Neil Leadbeater
Those glory days of Belle Époque posters, tariff lists and liners
reminders of an eclectic era from the shipyards of old
is where East meets West and everyone shouts
‘Trieste is ours’: a landscape in limbo –
the last ring on the rail
that held up the Iron Curtain –
a deep-water port of Latin, Slavic and German cultures
and everywhere the sea, the blue-dazed beauty of it,
dazzling stars.
Swing by for a week
and you might just stay forever.
