With its traditional
Forty layers of paper
Thin pastry, honey, pistachios.
Our guide told me it's
Best turned upside down
So that the crisp
Foundation sticks
To the top of your
Mouth - like words
Struggling for articulation.
All that history:
One religion built
On another and
Another. Pagan temples,
Under Cristian churches,
Beneath Mosques,
Shadowed by office
Buildings with
Telecom-tower minarets.
And through it all,
1700 years of tourists
Wearing away at the stone,
Crawling through the layers,
In the honey-sweet
Sickliness of history.
Link to my photos - a week in Istanbul April 2018
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