Outshining the statues of Hathor and Ramesses II
truer to life than the coffin lids picturing Osiris, Isis and Horus
the bright Aegean light
revealing the half-clothed and voluptuous Aphrodite
Demeter seated on throne
Apollo holding kithara
She who sits there
unmoved
all evening
looking out at the planes
as they ascend and descend
what is she thinking?
so much for the sunshine
it’s complicated
it always is
still have time for summer
but how many winters will it take
who knows
Wherever I go, whatever I do
I carry within me my Father:
that look, that sigh
of one thrown onto alien land
without hope of returning home
for home has ceased to exist.