Eurydice, Again
Deceiving death
And by death deceived
She haunts me, melodically
Alive in every lyric and tune
As I sing on our way to the threshold
Why must I keep looking back?
Unwittingly, I lose myself in memory
Reveries labyrinthian and alluring;
Infinite pathways that unfold,
Of which none lead forward
How does one move on
From a love that may still live?
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Lament for Clio
The poet stands before the muse
Defeated by forces predating him;
Those cursed hands that set the stage
Far before he had even arrived
A man, he thought,
Now that he could face,
But how could he compete with the past?
He gasps for his words,
Choking on each moment
That had conspired against him.
And yet he feels strong, perennial
Finally, he apologizes
For his only mistake;
That of being too late
Clio weeps, she is torn between
Present perfect and future conditional,
The limitations of choice itself
Where peace and promise
Diverge and converge endlessly
Her eyes are clouded
By the dew of a mourning
Which has not yet come, says
“How does one fight history?”
The poet holds his breath,
Takes respite in pauses, not endings,
says, “One grain of sand at a time.”
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Endymion
I love each of your phases, faces
The way your beauty lights the pasture
And silvers that dark valley
By your distant magnetism
I wonder at your influence
Oh, that divine push and pull
Which sways even passive Okeanos
You pull my flock’s wool over my eyes,
Whisper away my waning consciousness
And abandon me to my own blissful ideations
Which bay as Lycaon’s sons under a full moon
Do you want me to dream of you forever?
Would you be so cruel?
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