Margarita and Raphael
you
see
hints of
her features
in madonnas and
faces in crowds at sacred scenes
of the christ myth for which popes and cardinals paid well
but his passion for her explodes in la fornarina's breast asymmetry, and smile—
their truth lies etched in the deliberately misplaced
curl in their portrait of the pearl—
they birthed tasty veils
unborn eyes
will long
to
pierce
