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PARTHIAN SHOT
(the Hellas Ferry, Paros to Pireas)

The foam tossed and seething sea
recedes
beneath this twin dragon's breath
exhaled
behind our speeding leviathan
writing
in its wake, another myth
for seagulls and fish

in the turmoil
beneath

this meditteranean blue.
 
 
 

Are they calloused
by the sea spray salty brine?
Are their politics or loves
anything like mine?
 
 
 
 

 

 Pondering above
and thundering along
as holidays and legends pass
like waves
lapping
the curvature of the past.
 
 
 

 

 We're heading north
like a great Poseidon,
the engines roar
like dreaded sirens
and not a myth or dolphin>
appears
to chase the wake
of part time Argonauts
sailing home.

2/7/02