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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Masquerade

In your eyes dear mockery
Engaged me to a swift tune
Of words, and lightly laughing

We caught each other, to and fro
Telling a little more each time -
Somewhere the music changed

To a slow sonority
With a different memory
Rising for reparation.

We danced wildly, clutching at the old tune
But the evidence lay at our feet;
The thousand efforts withered as flowers.