This poem is taken from Stand 239, 21(3) September - November 2023.

Richard Marggraf Turley Two Poems
Duke Strozzi’s Signet Cabinet

Spread before you on the baize,
real Nile gems, not red sard feints.

I give you Juno, unwaxed, bossed
with fire-gloss, fricked by riverbed
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