Name: Betti Blu's Mortgage
Duration: P00H04M50S
Description: A perfidious Italian wife re-enacts Bluebeard outside Orvieto.

Betti Blu's Mortgage

from Sputnik by Lee Foust

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A perfidious Italian wife re-enacts Bluebeard outside Orvieto.

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BETTI BLU'S MORTGAGE

Winter streets and frozen
fountains how easy
to forgive oneself the chill

leaves burning on the plain
'neath Orvieto. Your eyes
the same skewed colors as

my own, turned down
sterile, stern, on
our child in disapproval.

And now these giggling girls
you forgot yourself in
putrid memories, this train

sunk in soggy ponds
and the bloody chamber
of Bluebeard's secret room

where you walled us all up.

2/17/2009
Florence-Rome, in transit

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from Sputnik, released March 11, 2016

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Lee Foust Naples, Italy

Lee Foust is an author and performer from Oakland, California who has lived in Italy since the mid-1990s. He teaches literature and creative writing courses for US universities abroad and is the father of one. Lee is the author of Sojourner, an anthology of stories and poems about place, Poison and Antidote, 9 Bohemian tales of San Francisco, and three novels: Inbetween, Fake Novel, and Here Lies. ... more