Cimabue's Crucifix.(Poem) From: The Literary Review | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Fisher, Catherine | COPYRIGHT 2001 Fairleigh Dickinson University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Damaged in the Florence floods, 1966

   The water wears his hands; furrows his face 
   It seeps into the wood of him, cracks and seams 
   swelling, splitting the still boards. 
   Slowly it infiltrates his beauty, lifting 
   gold leaf with infinite patience, flake 
   by flake; soaking the pigments away. 
 
   Water opens him. He's saturated, 
   running into long unwinding colours, 
   downward bruises, red and ochre; 
   shoulders sagging under the sopping weight. 
   Fac...

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