Poetry

Artemis Poems (IV)
Departure
Dutiful Wife
Eros in Piccadilly
Erotisis (Question)
Facing Hydra
Fair Hermia
Homage to Sylvia Plath
Homewards
Jalousie
Letters Home (I)
Letters Home (II)
Letters Home (III)
Letters Home (IV)
Letters Home (V)
Marriage
Masquerade
Mystery
Old Flame
Old Photos
Parsifal
Parsifal II
Persephone to Demeter
The Church at Malaucene
The Music
Train Journey

Greek Translations

Άρτεμις IV
Μασκαράτα
Στο Τραίνο

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Fair Hermia

The pain of losing you is laid to rest
By a childish arm, thrown about your neck
And a child's voice that susurrates your name
Over a windless sea

And in the garden where I stand
Naked my body to the night
And the magnolia blooms unseen
I choose a star, the furthest one
And call it friendship.

But all the others bring me comfort too
Star crowns for childish heads
Bright legends, witnesses to what has been: a jewel
A glory; a belief.