I was drawn like a magnet to the cemetery Island of San Michele where Venice buries all their dead. It is truly unique, a whole Island with graves dating back to the dawn of the Island. I read about a legend where a little girl was drowned accidentally because the gondola she was in, was hit by another gondola. The little girl was brought to San Michele, the cemetery Island where nearly all Venetians are buried. The legend goes that at times, candles appear around a tiny white coffin just off the Island. It inspired me to do this odd painting and write this poem of San Michele.