![]() ![]() ![]() Warming two coins on her tongue, grimacing from the bitter metallic taste, she pressed them to the glass with her thumbs until they melted a pair of eyeholes through which she could stare. Without the charcoal brazier heating her room, thick ice had encrusted the inside of the window and obscured her view. She heard their voices, parted the curtains, and tried to peer down into the campo below. It was on such a night that the men came for Hannah. Seeping refuse on the streets renders the pavement slick and the walking treacherous. Through the mist rising from the canal the cries and grunts of foraging pigs echo. Shapeless matter, perhaps animal, floats to the surface of Rio di San Girolamo and hovers on its greasy waters. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. ![]() At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. ![]()
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