Orpheus
Or was it Eurydice after all
Whom I saw descend into darkness
Wrapped in layers of bright light
And not Persephone as I had thought
Juglans Regia
A native of the Balkans, Himalayas,
and Southwest China, with vast forests
even now in Kyrgyzstan, the Ancient
Greeks took the Persian walnut from Iran
The Cat 7
This cartel of cats, this “Cat 7,”
this parliament of robber barons,
gathering in an uneasy peace,
Toward thinking about beginning to consider composing an homage to Bacchylides.
Ourania sends me ….
in a ship brimming with … gifts,
songs!
Charles Olson at the Eel River, Hearst, California
Seated by this shallow river
at what was its deep and mid point
in December…