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Article: From the Old Age of Perseus.(Poem)
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- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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From the Old Age of Perseus
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I fell in love with a landscape of stone.
The tangle of statuary
on the road to Medusa's hideout
comprising the twisted remnants
of everybody who ever tried to surprise her
seemed on my first incursion
the finest spectacle this world could afford.
Having developed a taste for it
I set about creating more such stone gardens,
at the cave of Atlas, at the belligerent wedding feast
in Libya, at the court of my ungrateful stepfather.
It began to feel like home
to be surrounded by rock figures with mouths agape
caught short while hurling a spear
or frozen in mid-leap as they jumped me ...