Monday, April 01, 2024
Love
Poem: the Ancient Greeks
i
A continent full of snakes and spiders greeted
Paris on his march into Troy. He thought of
Helen
while inside the Trojan horse, marking his love
for her on wooden beams with his sword.
When he dreamed of her, the seas whooshed him
back and forth to a bedchamber of camel hair
and wind-chimes.
ii
When Psyche brought home Cupid his...
