Greek Drama, Modern Mythology

Monoprint "3 Figures" by Ina Jean Garner, 1994

11 3/4" x 4", one of a series of four. 

Collection of R. Baker

Brisēís and you 

there was talk 

of two and how 

they met;

how between piercing 

each other's eyes 

they pilfered glances 

at peripheral others.

how exciting and

perfectly adulterous 

the notion that others 

could command 

attention. 

but lust is how it begins: 

fevered breathing 

and sweat, well, sometimes.

but always with rhythm 

of the notion that 

future possibilities 

lie just beyond the 

mythical, battled 

bed. 

Poem © 2011 R. Burnett Baker