The Islands

Athens
for Siarita Kouka

perhaps even ten years ago
the Eve image
the playing board
rectangle of fabric
return of the dead
anything spirit
no longer the referent
and the person
salty as the rook
moving pieces
along the photo
the totemic and frontal
gesture always
apricots in salt-sea
or Olynthos
and Aegean
went wrestling
with his namesake