

Pot One, Scared You Cowered...
scared you cowered.../sweet bay tree when.../all that pleased the tongue.../than that one.../and with the.../traveler of open roads.../scarcely I heard.../beloved holy soul.../such is now.../to have craved gentleness.../come before others--beauty.../and clothes...
Translation courtesy of Dan Beachy-Quick, copyright Tupelo

Pot Two, O Dark Dream
o dark Dream/you come in sleep and leave/sweet god, but a wondrous, terrible sorrow/has the force to hold apart/I have hope I won't share/never for the blessed gods--hope/this is not their/plaything, toy/may it bloom into being for me/everything
Translation courtesy of Dan Beachy-Quick, copyright Tupelo

Pot Three, Mica but You I Will Not Suffer
Mica/but you I will not suffer/those most-loved you seized for yourself/from the house of Penthilus/malign creature/a song sweet in the mouth/soft-voiced/singing, clear as nightingale and bitterly/covered in dew
Translation courtesy of Dan Beachy-Quick, copyright Tupelo

Fragments from each poem and pot.




