Antikythera Mechanism

Salt preserves. Slows timeby fending off decay and sothe sea must be a slowmotion machine since we canonly measure time by change.It is not just light that movesdifferently underwater. The true treasures are notalways obvious. We rescue,then neglect. Spend decadestrying to understand knowledgehumans had thousands of years ago. Lost. Found. Recovered. Discovered. When we measure …

Pablum

The spoon weaves, teasingly,But the game soon dissolvesInto mealy-mouthed frustration. Cheeks stuffed full of unwanted, overprocessedNonsense. Mush, where real nutritionOught to be. The dilemma: swallow or spit? The biggest challenge is not evenThe blandness of the taste itself But the endlessness of the oncoming drivel. What shall we do today?Eat like a numbly obediently child?Or …

Hamartia

His mother holds the golden vaseThat holds the bones of her only sonThat hold the memory of AchillesThat holds an eternal question When she took her infant to the river StyxAnd dipped her child in the waters of deathAnd won him this underworldly armourAnd slept easier knowing he was protected What if instead she had …

The ONE new year’s resolution everyone should make

The new year is approaching, which means we are drawing closer to resolution time! I’m a confirmed skeptic of new year’s resolutions. (If something is important, why wait? And if I can’t actually manage a goal in the course of my day to day life, why set myself up for failure and then punish myself …

Holding our breaths

A poem for election day Is this howThe Roman charioteersFelt when straddling two horses?Straining towards separate pathsDancing on the edge ofDisaster At leastThe Romans heldThe reins in their own two handsWe steer while yoked to madnessOn that at least weCan agree We hoverOn the future’sPrecipice HoldingOurBreaths Photo by Anastasiia Krutota on Unsplash