Maestro Mateo Self-Portrait (c1100 – c1200) [Sculpture, Portico de la Gloria, The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain] Minstrel of hammers exiled from my own creation, I set myself to kneel eternally in prayer
becalmed behind closed lids,
just here, among the guttering incense
facing the body of James, apostle of my devotions, (knowing that, once they had […]