Paolo Veronese     on viewing scene of Jesus healing                            woman with hemorrhage Amen to this ochre-based fresco! Why don't lords tug at stray threads, like her, in a half-kneel, crouched low? but: noli me tangere! And how better to pray than like moles worming deep under Nero? Deep comb acoustics make tougher aureoles than screams of the openly-killed hero; indeed, of all those who whispery and bloody, tug at snouts and chains, instead. In place of the flows straight to god's body that's been hacked into bread, bleeding woman, go forth and try teals! Like Chloe, bedecked in jewels, trade arum, lily for paschal meals, and leave him praying in your stagnant pools. ©Conrad DiDiodato 2007