In front of me a girl with bare feet,
in a beribboned dress, picks white
flowers in a field somewhere near Pompeii…
—Stewart Conn, “Springtime”
published in IN THE KIBBLE PALACE (Bloodaxe, 1987)
Pompeii was destroyed possibly #OTD, 24 Oct, 79CE
“Flora”, from Stabiae, Villa of Ariadne inv. 8834, is held in the frescos collection of the Museo Archaeologico di Napoli
https://www.museoarcheologiconapoli.it/en/portfolio-item/frescoes/
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