Month: April 2023
Blessed Ghosts in My Mind

To draw this out traditionally
and cross myself,
from the forehead to the belly,
it’s Shakespeare to Euripides—
and then, across my heart,
Sappho to Emily.
But you must take those four
and stick the whole bloody mess
into the golgatha
that Herman laid out
chasing that blasted
white whale.
And here we are. A mappamunde.