COMBAT ARENA... (My second poem about Rome's Colosseum, following a visit in 2004...)

 Combat Arena…

Numerals over gates

Signified entrances

For ancients

On broken walls

With empty niches,

Crumbling.

Iron-barred gateways

Barely hid weeds

And grasses

And empty mineral-water bottles

And candy wrappers

Tumbling…

Pete Ray

Rome’s Colosseum in 2004…