Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction
Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction
For Keith Johnson
‘Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.’ Carl Sandburg
I presume, since Carl Sandburg was a poet
of the railroad and the five-and-dime,
of prairie skies and the remarkableness
of the people, they are American
biscuits – that cross between scone and bannock –
to mop up the gravy from your beans
on the Chisholm Trail to Dodge City.
According to Homer, among others,
Hyakinthos,
From the restaurant terrace on the cliff top
at Agios Giorgios, Cape Drepanos,
we can see the small harbour below,
its sea wall curved like a scythe and, opposite,
the flat topped, steep sided, uninhabited
islet of Yeronisos, ‘Holy Island’ –
set today in that special, placid blue.
Folk tales have Greeks, after the fall of Troy
and exiled from home, land there and build
a temple to Apollo. Excavations
suggest the sanctuary was founded
by Cleopatra for Caesarion,
A SORT OF EDEN
PHILLIS WHEATLEY: 1753-1784
THE COLSTON BUN
PHILLIS WHEATLEY: 1753-1784
THE COLSTON BUN