Written on a Bathroom Wall in Rome by Gráinne Tobin

Written on a Bathroom Wall in Rome

by Gráinne Tobin

published in Banshee, Issue #3, Autumn/Winter 2016

This window is kept open: the catch sticks. Take care not to drop items into the courtyard four storeys below, especially if awakened at three a.m. when nightingales renew their legendary song during the break in traffic before dawn—

if you must lean out, entranced, holding your mobile phone set to record, saving this wonder to your sim card, observe all reasonable precautions, but do not neglect to murmur, Philomel.