Cassandra`s-Dream
CASSANDRA'S DREAM Kings from the world over heard me speak with a living sibyl saw me pour out her bowl on the briar I poured water over the earth the kings bowed to my prophecies their losses I meted out as air my city rose out of ashes the famine fell on the day of [...]
A-Different-Cleopatra
A DIFFERENT CLEOPATRA Melt into his joy, like a fruit in his mouth, bear his name not as a near-misfortune but as the future your own small self has awaited. Swaddled for worship, become the promise of wings that took an oath of staying affixed to a mummy; your bone-cage, supple enough for liberty, will [...]
Athena Wearing Gorgon Medusa Head
ATHENA CONSIDERS HER DESTINY Stone words hard to wield, smooth as the moon washed of night, shape me into a weapon no man can see except with the eyes of his bones. Words tight as skin in a fleshless space, worn thin in a cage of a promise, design fast leap into the air no [...]
Chtonic Gods
Рассказчица снов отразилась в стекле. Стекло разбилось на сотни гримас. Гримасы смешались в одном котле И—ни единого сна для нас. Охранница снов собрала сны в храм. Молилась на них, как на лики богинь. Но время сломало и сей сезам: От храма—лишь хлам один. Печальница снов их зарыла в земле, И вырос из них чудный куст. [...]