"There are homelands drawn with borders; Panama is drawn with light, water… and lips upon the shadow."
Beneath a sky of burning purple light
the bridge lifts up its spine of steel,
like an ancient and silent path
that joins the storm to life itself.
It is no tempest: it is wounded memory,
the memory of a sea that sings dark and seafaring;
and the horizon, crimson and true,
seems like a passion newly born.
Then Panama rises through the mist
like an immense mouth upon the river,
drawn in shadow and in foam.
The lips of the homeland and their dew
burn where the night consumes itself
beneath the deep and frozen lightning.
And the bridge — suspended between darkness —
does not divide the waters nor destiny:
it is an open heart upon the road
where the soul of the isthmus still trembles.
For Lucian Verona does not portray cities;
he portrays that which is never named:
love transformed into light and shadow
upon the eternity of tempests.
By León Vechhio
Size: Vertical canvas, 1.40 m high × 0.80 m wide, unframed;
Technique: Oil painting;
Status: Sold.
Code: LV-2014-001;
Year of Creation: 2014;
Author: Lucian Verona.
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