This poetry collection, published by University of Salzburg Press, is mainly an evocation of various European cities, particularly Zurich, and artisitc events and personalities associated with them. A great read for those who enjoy European travel and culture, from a prize-winning poet.

VISITING THE CATHEDRAL

We are visiting the cathedral
of Limburg, newly repainted
the color of flesh, a dark,
sun-burned flesh that contrasts
starkly with the skeleton inside.

Here is its authentic age:
along the quiet nave footfall
and voice are long hushed,
the bare bones are blanched,
the texture is of sudden dust.

In this colonnade of limbs,
femurs and the girded thighs
stride the huge ribbed edifice
aloft amid this world of wars
and through the bloodshot sky.

et cetera.