Poems

Interruption We interrupt the work of the gods, hasty and inexperienced beings of the moment. In the palaces of Eleusis and Phthia Demeter and Thetis start […]

Ionian Just because we’ve torn their statues down, and cast them from their temples, doesn’t for a moment mean the gods are dead. Land of Ionia, […]

Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon-don’t be afraid […]

Manuel Komninos One dreary September day Emperor Manuel Komninos felt his death was near. The court astrologers -bribed, of course- went on babbling about how many […]

Monotony One monotonous day is followed by another monotonous, identical day. The same things will happen, they will happen again — the same moments find us […]

Morning Sea Let me stop here. Let me, too, look at nature awhile. The brilliant blue of the morning sea, of the cloudless sky, the yellow […]

Nero’s Term Nero was not worried when he heard the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle. “Let him fear the seventy three years.” He still had ample […]

Of The Shop He wrapped them carefully, neatly in costly green silk. Roses of ruby, lilies of pearl, violets of amethyst. As he himself judged, as […]

On an Italian Shore Kimos, son of Menedoros, a young Greek-Italian, devotes his life to amusing himself, like most young men in Greater Greece brought up […]

One Night The room was penurious and common, Hidden over a disreputable tavern, The alley could be seen from the window, Unclean and narrow. From below […]