Tag: Mythology
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Cathleen Sanford Haar
Mycenae 2013, An Epitaph The darkening sky clamps down helmet tight against the mountains. A hissing windsnakes through cracks in the walls made from boulders so heavy that only Cyclopscould have hoisted them into place. It’s our last day in Greece and it’s turned coldon us, sudden as Clytemnestra’s revenge. Rain pocks the graveled ground,…
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L. Shapley Bassen
Uncle Phil Doesn’t everyone have someone who committed suicide?In my case, it was a young uncle.Family was always ‘waiting for the other shoe to fall’which I didn’t understand early onbut it became the foundation for metaphorand the reality of Uncle Phil.Kind, gentle, shy, smart. Taught me ping pong,golf swing, and clean sparkplugs —the latter outmoded…