Sport 43: 2015
Giant Gulps
Giant Gulps
In earlier times, all islands wandered about and had no foundations.
—quoted in ‘A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities’
How diminished
the old gods appear.
But for the crowns
their figures now
submerged, not
utterly forgotten.
Some, naturally,
still steam. This ferry
steers clear of them
and that drowning
sensation in our beds
whenever they
come up for air.
It’s an uncommonly
clear head we crave—
one now at ease in
the underworld. Once
flush with laurel
and myrtle, a crown smoothed
by eons of brooding.
Wrinkled only by that
Bronze Age road
still meandering
above the harbour.