Atlas plate · High Roman Empire
The Empty Threshold
She is in Campania for her health. He walks the rooms where she sat.
From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.
From
Comum (Como)
Between
her health, his office, the ordinary distances of empire
Toward
Campania
Placement is approximate where the record is not a surveyor.
- From
- Comum, on the lake in Cisalpine Gaul
- Toward
- Campania, south of the city
- Between
- the Italian peninsula, roads, villas, the length of a married absence
- Distance
- about 560 km of land that can be named and still not crossed tonight
- Obstacle
- her health, his office, the ordinary distances of empire
- Beloved
- Calpurnia
- Approximate route
- down the peninsula from the lakes toward the southern shore
- Time apart
- the season of her convalescence
- Message delay
- wax, a courier, the wait for a letter in her hand
- What stands between them
- rooms she has left empty, and a correspondence of which only his side survives