Sunday, April 23, 2017

Poem LXXI: A flickering torch

Polydeukes?
have you seen Lukaithos anywhere
here among the dead?
I saw him last in the company of Enarsphoros
and lightning-fast Thebros
deadly
wearing his war-helmet
with Euteikhes and Lord Arion
most powerful among demigods

now I don't see any of them

and no one answers me

Polydeukes?

the afterlife as far as I can see is
endless dots
and outward-facing brackets
as far as the eye can see









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