Friday, March 18, 2005

Two classical poems

I
Aeneid

Aeneas turned to face the shore
Strode to the waiting ship
His love for Dido forgotten:
Her second album really wasn't very good


II
A pomegranate seed

Persephone
going underground
crossed the chill fields
crusted with snow
to be swallowed
by the
cave

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