The other day, I was reading Patricia Rosenmeyer's beautiful volume, Ancient Greek Literary Letters, and I was awed by the brevity, the sparse and somber elegance, of that old writing. I always am. Much of ancient poetry is short; even fragments of poems have more power than most modern writing. Those people were in touch with something basic that we have lost. Can we get it back by writing differently?
Wall by the Dealership Nothing remains of the farmstead but the stone wall where now the mechanics eat their lunch unaware of what old violence bled upon these slave-piled rocks. Inspired by Themistocles letter 9
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