"Ovid's Love Nest Found by Banks of the Tiber".(Poem)

 
"OVID'S LOVE NEST FOUND 
BY BANKS OF THE TIBER" 
 
--Sunday Times 
 
   Under three meters of clay, walls 
   and an in-floor mosaic, of Dionysus, perhaps? 
   White-flecked beard and laurel crown, 
   carrying a flowering, beribboned staff. 
   "It could be an ideal poet, perhaps Greek. 
   But we prefer to think it is Ovid." 
 
   The villa overlooks the Tiber from the North 
   and from its portico the poet might have watched 
   the traffic stream over a bridge and on up the Milvian Way. 
   But I imagine him turning ...