INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 1

Title: The border that remains between the well-pit

and the great cliff forms an enormous circle,

and ten descending troughs are cut in it,

offering a general prospect like the ground

that lies around one of those ancient castles

whose walls are girded many times around

by concentric moats. And just as, from the portal,

the castle's bridges run from moat to moat

to the last bank; so from the great rock wall

across the embankments and the ditches, high

and narrow cliffs run to the central well,

which cuts and gathers them like radii.

8.5 x 11.25 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 23, 2021