Tag: mythology
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Four Rivers
Styx makes a great ouroboros And flows into itself: A ring the gods slip on Before their oath-making. On the left bank souls gather Like so many flies On the gashed flank of an antelope. Those without obols Harass those with them: Don’t you remember what I did for you Before night sealed our eyes?…
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Persephone
upon emerging no doubt blinked once for every seed she had swallowed: both to cleanse the insidious murk, the wails and chitterings of the dead made solid, from her stinging eyes, and to assure herself that yes, this was her mother who wept, wrapping her tight in cloak-folds that rustled like grain; this was the…
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Paris, Prince of Troy
You may have Achilles whose mouth frothed more than the river he fought. You are welcome to Ajax with his towering shield and skull full of rocks. I even grant you Hector who in the name of Troy left his son fatherless. Only leave me Paris – effete, peak-capped bowman Paris – who threw away…
Thomas R. Keith Poetry 