SHEELA CLARY: When in Rome, alone - The Berkshire Edge

SHEELA CLARY: When in Rome, alone - The Berkshire Edge

It was my first night alone in Rome, an hour or so before a late spring sunset, and as I walked on a side street near the Colosseum, my attention was drawn to the sky above me. A seagull had caught a smaller bird in mid-air. It was probably a pigeon, but I could tell only that it was blue-gray and that its case was hopeless. The larger bird pinned the smaller one’s body to the sidewalk with its feet and clasped shut its small beak within its lar…