Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Poem LIII: Palinode, or recantation


after Stesichoros



What  did I say? Did I say that?
If I did I must have been
out of my mind

Here I'll set the record straight
for all to hear

You are not made of fire
but flesh and bone
and when one tries think of you
your face comes easily to mind

you neither went to, nor returned from, any town
anywhere in Asia Minor

you work in a grocery store



now
will you kindly undo these straps















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