DPF / Stallings

And, Psyche of Stallings…

from After a Greek Proverb / by A.E. Stallings

Twelve years now and we’re still eating off the ordinary:
We left our wedding china behind, afraid that it might crack.
We’re here for the time being, we answer to the query,
But nothing is more permanent than the temporary.

DPF / Simic

Then, of course, there’s Simic with one of my other loves, those Greeks. Back to rivers, to the one where the moon sends only emissaries.

from Charon’s Cosmology / by Charles Simic

Once in a long while a mirror
Or a book which he throws
Overboard into the dark river
Swift and cold and deep