A short fiction inspired by The Seven Works of Mercy – Caravaggio, 1606, Naples.
No line is ever straight. The brush comes down, turns left, then right, then up and sideways, each time rounding with a tilt of the hand, a lift of the arm, and a tap of the sweaty forehead, drawing winged bodies descending into a dark alleyway where thieves, beggars, and ordinary men mingle with saintly figures.
They are tumbling angels floating in the nocturnal sky, their muscular arms fully extended like a bridge carrying
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