Tag: ships
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And out come the sharks
Planks come loose from the trireme’s flank Like a flooded arena on the Emperor’s birth night Flaming men jump over the side and into the sea Bodies which sank the same regardless of rank Are set upon by shank-jawed blood magnets Magnates of the brine planet, baleful magistrates Whose every gavel check is a pronouncement…
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The Lost Books of Cairo
Conspiring beauty enlivens the o’er admiring, who can blamed be Oars untiring carry troopful triremes from Athens out beyond Tyrens Light of wifely eloping, political hopefuls lend armies’ opals to doomed cause Alliances swiftly made are like to stray, unlike those well founded, which firmly stay Time which tests Never be impressed at breast-stirred feeling…
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Smashed at Actium
Gold much in Egypt Gods older than the foam which drank Atlantis Arch fantasist whose phantom hand called up every flower He toward whom all followers tend eventually Ear lender whose housing lobes empathic eternal paternal tenderness At disposal every power, every rotad hour known to he Oldest When ceaseless cleansing rains started, the heart…
Alchemisland 