Erechtheum

The caryatid head begins to turn
on hearing human footsteps on the stone.
Freed by Artemis, she can discern
a memory, and slips down from the throne.

The line of hunter nymphs has lost a maiden.
The panoply will stand, though disarrayed.
One stony virgin, stunned to be unladen,
has wandered off to love's fanfaronade.

Though Ephesus will be her sanctuary,
she searches through the Herakleion grove
to gather herbs for an electuary.
Wherever love has wandered, she will rove.

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Biography

My poems, translations, adaptations and reviews have appeared or will soon appear in The Formalist, First Things, Iambs and Trochees, Leviathan Quarterly (UK), The Adirondack Review, Edge City Review, The Texas Review, Pivot, and Orbis (UK), and in a number of online journals: Verse Daily, The HyperTexts, Triplopia, and The Alsop Review, among others.